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Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed
Rather than wars between groups, violence in early societies was most often due to personal clashes within the same society, a controversial study suggests    
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Jul 19, 2013, 8:23am
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cbjones1943
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Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 4:09 pm CDT

1. ...assuming that the authors' results are reliable and meaningful...

2. ...overt violence may be uncommon because genetic/developmental constraints are successful...rather than because they are not operative...

3. ...students of animal behavior have noted for decades that damaging aggression [among conspecifics] is rarely observed in Nature...

4. ...why should it be different among humans?

 

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