[ExI] Human Warfare is learned behaviour - not evolutionary

[Anton Sherwood]

Big thanks, I enjoyed this book!

On 2020-9-09 00:14, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat wrote:
> See "The Goodness Paradox" by Richard Wrangham. The book presents a 
> compelling argument that the goodness of humans (who are quite gentle
> as compared to apes) is due to self-domestication which in turn was
> made possible by intra-group lethal coalitionary violence - i.e. the
> meek men working together to kill troublesome men.

In particular, language made it possible (a) to agree that Bob the Jerk 
needed subtracting and (b) to make a plan to do it.

> It is strange to think that our niceness was made possible by widespread 
> killing in cold blood over hundreds of thousands of years but once you 
> think it through, it makes great sense.

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