Chimp warfare takes the form of bands of males who patrol the borders of their territory, looking for an individual of the neighboring community who has been rash enough to feed alone. ...
Chimpanzees carefully calculate the odds and seek to minimize risk, a very necessary procedure if one fights on a regular basis. They prefer to attack an isolated individual and then retreat to their own territory. ... [Researchers] find that the chimps will approach as long as they number three or more; parties of two will slink away. Three against one is the preferred odds: two to hold the victim down and a third to batter him to death.
Are we really anything more than naked apes? Our primal natures are, as Frans de Waal argues, a hybridization of chimp and bonobo. Some groups, though, more closely resemble chimps; others have more in common with bonobos.
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Are we really anything more than naked apes?
Men and women are much more than naked apes. Not all specimens of H. sapiens are men and women. The dividing line between higher and lower goes through our species, not between it and another species.
The bringing of slaves from Africa to North America was the single biggest blunder on Earth committed during the second millenium. Either that or simply freeing them at the end of the CW, rather than repatriation or complete geographical separation.
As De Waal acknowledges, humans split off before bonobos. Since bonobos are a small group only able to naturally survive in a restricted habitat, I think our ancestors were likely more similar to chimps.
TGGP,
Right, which is why I linked to the parapundit post on de Waal, as Randall points out as much therein, though I see how that could seem misleading.
"The district needs $219 million by March, and its bond insurer, Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., wants the state to guarantee DPS won't file for bankruptcy. Bobb told lawmakers the district has no such intentions."
"I don't feel the taxpayers of Michigan are willing to become liable for that money with all the structural and institutional problems that exist," Scott said.
"We need a long-term solution for public schools for Detroit and the state," he said. "We just don't have the solution right now."
http://detnews.com/article/20110221/SCHOOLS/102210355/Michigan-orders-DPS-to-make-huge-cuts#ixzz1Ee7Ok0Xq
Reverse the races and this is national news with breathless mainstream media reporters elbowing out Al Sharpton to denounce racism in America.
Check out this one from just yesterday:
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979087343
And these are the educated ones.
This should be an advertisement for applying for a lifetime concealed carry permit. A gun, even a knife, would have been handy.
Here's one from Tuesday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeZvUKpFbM
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