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Interesting Times12/29/2012 7:59:44 pm PST

re: #49 allegro

Hey, speaking of your area of expertise, did you see this?

Fighting may have shaped evolution of human hand

Pretty provocative comments from the researchers:

“I think there is a lot of resistance…to the idea that, at some level humans are by nature aggressive animals. I actually think that attitude, and the people who have tried to make the case that we don’t have a nature - those people have not served us well.

“I think we would be better off if we faced the reality that we have these strong emotions and sometimes they prime us to behave in violent ways. I think if we acknowledged that we’d be better able to prevent violence in future.”