THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE PRIMATES EXPLAINS THE VIOLENCE IN HUMANS

THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE PRIMATES EXPLAINS THE VIOLENCE IN HUMANS

Synopsis

The psychological, sociological and evolutionary roots of violence in humans is still under study.

The fact of being part of a group of mammals who are specially violent encourage us to have aggressive behaviour.

Humans can be six times more violent than other species, seen from an evolution perspective.
In total we have collected data of four million of lethal attacks between members of the same specie.
These attacks include war, homicide, infanticide and cannibalism.
Results show that letal violence is more common in territorial species and in species that live in social groups. In humans you combine both, that can explain our level of violence.

The level of violence has changed over the years of human history. Aggressive behaviour was common in prehistorical communities, now, in the modern times violence has decreased but that also depends of the sociopolitical condition we live in.

This study doesn't includes violence between other species because in that case we would be talking about survival.

The new investigation places the analysis of violence in the family tree of mammals like a feature that has developed over the years in evolution.
This subjected has been motive of a lot of philosophicals and cientific discussions over the centuries.
Thomas Hobbes thought we were violent by nature and Jacques Rousseau thought that the influence of society made us bad.



Link

http://www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/planeta-tierra/20160929/41648841184/historia-evolucion-primates-violencia-humanos.html




Glossary

- Primates : member of the most developed and intelligent group of mammals, including humans, monkey and apes 

- Mammal : an animal that drinks milk from its mother's body when it is young.

- Species : a group of plants or animals that are the same in some way.

- Aggressive : angry and violent towards another person.

- Philosophical : relating to the study or writing of philosophy

- Survival : the state of continuing to live, specially after a dangerous situation.

Scientific scope

Biology, the evolution of the primates and violence.

Date 

29/09/201

Analysis

I think this news it's very interesting because this subject has been talked a lot during the years.

From my point of view I think like the author of the news, people in general are aggressive, it also depends in the sociopolitical condition you live in that makes you more or less aggressive but either that we are violent.

In my enviorment almost every day there is a violent behaviour among us.

I also agree with the study that demostrates that from an evolution perspective we are much more aggressive than other species, sometimes we are cruel to other species like for example the hunt of seals, but this study and news talks about the violence between us and we all can demostrate it's true just look in your surrounding.