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Related: About this forumMurder 'comes naturally' to chimpanzees
Source: BBC
18 September 2014 Last updated at 03:43 ET
Murder 'comes naturally' to chimpanzees
By Jonathan Webb
Science reporter, BBC News
A major study suggests that killing among chimpanzees results from normal competition, not human interference.
Apart from humans, chimpanzees are the only primates known to gang up on their neighbours with lethal results - but primatologists have long disagreed about the underlying reasons.
One proposal was that human activity, including destroying habitats and providing food, increased aggression.
But the new findings, published in Nature, suggest this is not the case.
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valerief
(53,235 posts)Instead, it was basic characteristics of each community that made the biggest difference: the number of males within it, and the overall population density of the area.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)violence has served us well over the millennia.
but it's time to evolve some more.
DavidG_WI
(245 posts)kill as much as cats?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)whereas in humans, killing doesn't just come naturally. It has to be learned, somehow. Thanks, Eugene.