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Fight With Cudgels, Francisco Goya, 1820-1823 |
The implications of saying violence is a product of natural selection are disturbing.To find out what Pagel said and finish the article, click on "Violence Is Natural, Darwinians Say".
Lethal violence is rooted deep in our animal ancestry, says Mark Pagel in Nature. “Researchers estimate that the incidence of human lethal violence at the time of the origin of our species was about six times higher than for the average mammal, but about as violent as expected, given our great-ape ancestry.” Well if researchers say it, it must be true, right? The researchers are from Spain, with their Nature paper titled, “The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence.” Phylogeny is code for universal common ancestry by natural selection, i.e., neo-Darwinism. Pagel makes that clear:
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