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By the way, evolutionary psychology tries to account for human psychology traits that were adaptive for hunter gatherers. These traits may map into modern conditions, but it's just happenstance. Some of them like capture-bonding--better known as Stockholm Syndrome--are rarely evoked in full form in the modern world (Thank goodness!).
Wars between hunter gatherers didn't destroy a lot of built up capital investment because there just wasn't much. (Capital investment like water works makes large populations possible.) Since the income of large human populations depends on huge capital investment, a war which destroys a lot of the capital makes people poorer and over some range more likely to support wars. Eventually they get so poor that there are no resources that can be diverted to fighting and the war fades out.
Talks about nasty disfunctional feedback loops!
Keith Henson
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