Was the progress of humanity driven by kindness; or by warfare and aggression?
Group of boys marooned on an island turn to tribalistic aggression, warfare and, ultimately, murder.
A major new study of chimp warfare finds that lethal aggression can be evolutionarily beneficial, rewarding the winners with food, mates, and the opportunity to pass along their genes.
This can decrease the population either directly through warfare, or indirectly because increased aggression reduces the time and energy the ants use for feeding and reproduction.
RESULTS: More frequent use of corporal punishment was related to higher rates of inculcation of aggression in children, warfare, and interpersonal violence.
Independent coders rated the frequency and harshness of corporal punishment of children, inculcation of aggression in children, warfare, interpersonal violence among adults, and demographic, socioeconomic, and parenting covariates.
Patterson explores how modern men and women respond to the threat of new warfare with new capacities for imagining aggression and death.
These relations held for inculcation of aggression in children and warfare after controlling for demographic, socioeconomic, and parenting confounds.
But a major new study of warfare in chimpanzees finds that lethal aggression can be evolutionarily beneficial in that species, rewarding the winners with food, mates, and the opportunity to pass along their genes.
Interspecific aggression [ 19], chemical warfare [ 20], dominance hierarchies and competitive displacement [ 21- 23] have been documented in numerous ant species inhabiting different parts of the globe.
War rugs document protest, dissent, revolt and foreign aggression, and employ the symbols of warfare on both sides, including tanks, helicopters, grenades and Kalashnikovs woven through the tableaus.
