Are We Hard-Wired for War? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The emerging popular consensus about our biological predisposition to warfare is troubling. It is not just scientifically weak; it is also morally unfortunate, as it fosters an unjustifiably limited vision of human potential.
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Conflict avoidance, reconciliation and cooperative problem solving could also have been altogether “biological” and positively selected for.
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Chimpanzees, we now know, engage in something distressingly akin to human warfare, but bonobos, whose evolutionary lineage makes them no more distant from us than chimps, are justly renowned for making love instead.
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