The Effects of Cold Blood Aggression on Humans

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Human beings are way lower in reactive aggression other r species. Thisis, this is an argument made very nicely in a recent book by richard wrangham. We don't really fully mature into the big, smelly, cross, aggressive harry wa cant. You know, we're like dogs. We're just a bit frozen in youth as ere animals.

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