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#781 R. Brian Ferguson - Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill?

The Dissenter

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The Rival Coalition Reduction Hypothesis and the Research Competition Hypothesis

The dominance drive only got, well, didn't really get transferred whole to humans. But what stays in is the idea that they want to dominate the other groups. That's still there. And that leads to the tendency of people to go to war, even if there's nothing tangible material at stake. The difference between these two things is very important for understanding theories of human warfare and things like ethnic conflict situations.

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