‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war
(www.theguardian.com)
In a certain way, this is encouraging. If we can uncover the underlying mechanisms driving aggressive and war like behavior in chimpanzees, we may be able to treat these behaviors in humans.
Additionally, if it’s not an emergent phenomena of civilization, it may be only sometimes emergent in evolution. If life has evolved elsewhere, it may be possible they did not evolve war or war like aggressive behavior, and thus may not have the evils we have.