#781 R. Brian Ferguson - Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill?
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The Human Impact of Human War
In external fighting of adults, 52 males and 12 females. In infants, when the sexes know, known 31 males and 24 females. The direction is supposed to be exclusive. And instead, it goes to more than more and less. That's not the original sociobiological calculus that was applied here.
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Dr. R. Brian Ferguson is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University Newark. His expertise lies in cultural anthropology, the anthropology of war, ethnic conflict, state-tribe interaction, policing, and Puerto Rico. His latest book is “Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill?”.
In this episode, we focus on Chimpanzees, War, and History. We start by talking about the history of the belief in a “death instinct” and aggressive drives, and what is war. We go through different cases of chimpanzee groups – Gombe, Mahale, and Kibale -, and get into detail about the Four-Year War; human interference; chimp territoriality; the rise of sociobiology; the Imbalance of Power Hypothesis; the Resource Competition Hypothesis; the Human Impact Hypothesis; the Display Violence Hypothesis; when chimps resort to violence; the aftermath of the war; and issues with counting killings. We discuss the best ways to study violence in chimpanzees. We also talk about bonobos, and Dr. Ferguson’s anthropological theory of war.
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