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

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The Evidence for a War at Mahalay

Chimpanzees disappeared quite frequently from many chimpanzee groups. They'd be there for three months and they'd go away and they'd come back and one of the males wasn't there. Now, if when you get to the book, you'll see practically a whole page of people saying, at Mahalay, one group exterminated another. Well, there's no evidence of that. There are two intergroup infant killings, but the evidence for the war there is nothing really.

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