War has been with us so long some say it is part of the human condition, whatever that means. That may not be the case at all. Here is one study that suggests it is not. Is it natural for humans to make war? New study of tribal societies reveals conflict is an alien concept.
A study of tribal societies that live by hunting and foraging has found that war is an alien concept and not, as some academics have suggested, an innate feature of so-called “primitive people”.Be that as it may, we are here in the 21st century and in my 78 years on the planet, war seems part of us. We are an evolving species and war seems to be an integral part of that evolution. Read on below and let's try to understand why.The findings have re-opened a bitter academic dispute over whether war is a relatively recent phenomenon invented by “civilised” societies over the past few thousand years, or a much older part of human nature. In other words, is war an ancient and chronic condition that helped to shape humanity over many hundreds of thousands of years?
The idea is that war is the result of an evolutionary ancient predisposition that humans may have inherited in their genetic makeup as long ago as about 7 million years, when we last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees – who also wage a kind of war between themselves.