Jiang rejects war as the main explanation because bonobos complicate the violent-primate analogy and because archaeology does not show enough early weapons or large intergroup violence.
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Jiang rejects war as the main explanation because bonobos complicate the violent-primate analogy and because archaeology does not show enough early weapons or large intergroup violence.
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"think coercion is an explanation, because there's so many ways for us to fight back and to rebel against bigger people, okay? So coercion..."
"We don't find that. So, war, we don't really think is a possibility. Now, it's possible that in the future, we'll find evidence. But..."
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