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

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The Importance of War in Anthropology

War is when members of one group combine and go and take action that involves killing members of another group, he says. "I wanted to define war in its most minimal sense," the anthropologist adds. War distinguishes war from homicide, which goes back as far as we have fossils,. But while some kind of coordination directed at some others who are not members of the same group, that's been my definition all along"

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