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Human Behaviour: Killer Instincts

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That's the title of an article in the current issue of Nature. It has this subhead, "What can evolution say about why humans kill ? and about why we do so less than we used to?" LINK Here's the opening: ?It is scientifically incorrect to say that we have inherited a tendency to make war from our animal ancestors ? that war or any other violent behaviour is genetically programmed into our human nature ? [and] that humans have a 'violent brain'.? These are the ringing words of the 'Seville Statement on Violence', fashioned by 20 leading natural and social scientists in 1986 as part of the United Nations International Year of Peace, and later adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It was written to counter the pessimistic view that violence and war are inevitable features of human life...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).