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Posted on 09/29/2016 8:56:08 AM PDT by C19fan
The propensity for humans to kill one another may be hot-wired into our DNA but culture also has the power to change our behaviour, a new study has found.
The research, led by José María Gómez at the Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas in Spain and published in the journal Nature, explored the human tendency to act violently towards members of our own species.
This topic has been hotly debated among experts, with scores of studies questioning whether this vicious trait is an evolutionary development or the result of our cultural or social dynamics.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
Just don't diss me man and we're cool.
American Indian peace and harmony here!
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
“The scalping victims considered in this study came from the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Southwest.
The Midwest is by far the region with the largest sample, estimated at between 400 and 500 scalped individuals. However, most of these victims came from Crow Creek Canyon, the site of a large-scale massacre involving a minimum of 486 individuals (Gregg et al 1981).
The excavators report that not only were almost every person scalped, but they also were mutilated and dismembered, and many of their hands and feet appear to have been removed and taken as trophies.”
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Interesting mention of the taking of hands and feet as trophies. In Burke’s book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK he mentions how they the troops and their Shoshone allies had attacked a hostile Cheyenne camp, and in that camp they found a bag of hands cut from Shoshone babies.
The Shoshone allies took the bag, and spent the entire night weeping and wailing over it.
Try "Original Sin". You can read all about it in the "Book of Genesis".
Like in any survival situation, body fat meant life, so I bet they didn't look like Rae Dawn Chong, either.
I’ve often said that war is man’s natural state, and that peace is only the exception that proves the rule.
History is little more than a study of mankind’s repeated conflicts.
The practice arose from the Plains Indians’ belief that a spirit robbed of its hands and feet (and other ... appendages) would be unable to grasp or walk in the Great Beyond.
It was reported that many of Custer’s men at the Little Bighorn had their eardrums punctured with sharp bones or sticks since they had failed to listen to repeated warnings that they would be massacred.
Who are you going to believe, a guy wearing make-up and lacy drawers sitting around sipping wine or the evidence of your lying eyes?
I always wondered why anyone with two brain cells to rub together took Rousseau seriously.
The subtext here is that those humans who evolved in what is now the British Isles,Western Europe and Scandinavia and who would later become the people who came to the new world were the brutal ones while those humans who evolved in the Northern and Southern hemisphere( American Indians , the Mexicans and peoples of Central and South America) were the happy children of the plains and forests and rain forests who were brutalized by the white Europeans.
Mayans, too:
Nice folks, huh?
Yes, the correct answer to the postulated question is “BOTH”.
Now, someone send me my $100,00 for this research. Address it to: Captain Obvious. I’d prefer a bearer bond instead of a check.
Unless you think CIVILization preceded the world of today, why would you think otherwise?
I can imagine myself, years ago, tracking down a saber-toothed tiger and, when confronted by a stone-age liberal, trying to stop me because the animal “had rights too”, I probably would’ve killed them on the spot.
Today I would hesitate.
Even if violence is evolutionary, there could still be cultural and ethnic dynamics that make some cultures and ethnicities not ready for a free and rational society and not able to fit in.
I can’t imagine what koolaid drinker hasn’t known that for at least 40 years...
One of my cousins was married to an archaeologist-a paleoindian expert-my 1st husband and I always used our vacation time to visit whatever dig he was doing in the SW, or in Mexico, taking our cub to give her a REAL education. From villages torched with the inhabitants and their livestock, mutilated skeletons in pits on a battlefield 1000’s of years old, etc- violence was obviously the answer to just about every dispute, trespass or insult-some liberals are still in Lala land...
Did our ancestors wear their bear skin rugs below the waist and expose their underwear too and chant cave men lives matter?
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