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1. jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺 (jd@soc.ialis.me)'s status on Monday, 10-Dec-2018 06:08:33 EST jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺

   No scientific proof that war is ingrained in human nature
   https://phys.org/news/2018-12-scientific-proof-war-ingrained-human.html
   '...there is no scientific proof that we have an inherent propensity to take up arms and collectively kill.

   In a study published in Scientific American, Ferguson argues that war may not be in our nature at all. People might fight and sometimes kill for personal reasons, but homicide, he argues, is not war [....]

   "Anthropologists think about prospects for war in the long term," Ferguson says. "If the idea that war is part of human nature is not scientifically supported, alternative futures open up. If more people work for prevention, the eventual eradication of war is a definite theoretical possibility."...'

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 10-Dec-2018 07:35:44 EST Strypey

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      @jd I remember reading Ferguson's critique of Steven Pinker's book 'The Angels of our Better Nature'. He seems to really know his stuff on this topic.