(February 22, 2015 at 2:57 pm)abaris Wrote: Within your own group. We're closely related to chimps and while violence among their own groups are rare, they go out of their way to wage war on a different group of chimps.
That's what we're dealing with when it comes to our heritage.
I wouldn't say they go out of their way.
Quote:After studying 18 communities for a total of 426 years (or 23 years per community, on average), Wilson et al. directly observed only 15 intercommunity killings of weaned victims. That comes to one killing every 28 years in a typical community–or one every 15 years if 14 “inferred” killings of weaned chimps are included.
Quote:As for dogs, there are pretty recent scientific discoveries about their real cognitive potential. Look up the research of Professor Hare and his dognition center. To compare them to predators is fundamentally wrong, since their evolution and socialisation is closely linked to our own species.I think the last sentence is the most relevant point. The whole act of domestication is evolution by artificial selection.
