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249. Primatologist Explains the 1% Difference Between Humans & Apes | Richard Wrangham
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Are We Naturally Aggressive?
For decades, people have tended to solve this paradox by saying either that we are naturally aggressive and we learn culturally to be nice to each other or vice versa. I think it's very, very clear that humans have got tendencies for appalling violence which will be elicited under the appropriate circumstances. And equally, it is very clear that people grow up to be spontaneously, thoroughly moral and kind and tolerant with each other. We have these two tendencies. The way to think about human aggression and non-aggression is that we are relatively elevated for the propensity for proactive aggression.
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