No, War Is Not Inevitable – It’s A Cultural Development, Not An Evolved Trait

Science writer John Horgan: “Many chimpanzee communities – and all known communities of bonobos, apes that are just as closely related to humans as chimps – have never been seen engaging in intertroop raids. Even more important, the first solid evidence of lethal group violence among our ancestors dates back not millions, hundreds of thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, but only 13,000 years.”