On 30 March 2015 at 15:16, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 3/29/2015 7:06 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 30 March 2015 at 14:35, Kim Jones <kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > >> >> Them? They're just idiot warmongers like the brutes they are >> confronting. Takes one to know one. As soon as you have "my tribe" you also >> unfortunately have "not in my tribe". Besides, some of them only may be >> warriors. Most are likely twelve pound weaklings who were hit over the head >> in the middle of the night and told they had this brilliant career ahead of >> them in the armed forces. >> >> I imagine that most of the fighting done by men throughout human > evolution has been against animals. Only a few of those animals were also > human. This was a dirty job, no doubt, but someone had to do it - if early > humans were to survive, and get some protein in their diets. I think > there's an idea that eating meat helped us on the path to big-brained > dominant species that we are today (apart from all the beetles and things). > > Hunting and eating meat no doubt provided an ecological niche that > selected for a smart, cooperative, weapon making ground ape. > > I agree, although since we aren't exclusively carnivores there other selection factors at work. But I guess that's obvious (sexual selection for one, of course).
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