Monday 9th May - 07:20 PM BST
Talk - The Evolution of War
Is war in our blood?
Evolutionary biologists argue, the story of human warfare begins with the legacy of our distant ancestry and past. Anthropologists Jane Goodall and John Mitani have observed chimps committing what we would now call war crimes: torture, cannibalism, rape, and even genocide. With this propensity for war in our blood, in our DNA, is warfare unavoidable?
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The Evolution of War
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Bonaventura Majolo
Bonaventura Majolo is a Professor of Social Evolution at the University of Lincoln and has led pioneering research into altruism, competition, aggression and warfare amongst primate species.
