Read all about it here.
“Statistically, it is more common for humans to be cooperative and to attempt to get along than it is for them to be uncooperative and aggressive towards one another,” he [anthropologist Robert Sussman] says. And he is not alone in this view. A growing number of experts are now arguing that the urge to wage war is not innate, and that humanity is already moving in a direction that could make war a thing of the past.
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Yet perhaps, if Cormac McCarthy’s colleague at the Santa Fe Institute is right, this development is owing to — war:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17255-ancient-warfare-fighting-for-the-greater-good.html
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And then, of course, even if such a suspiciously optimistic (if that’s not a redundant phrase) prognosis were true, there are other ineradicable features of our (and the rest of animate) nature we can fall back upon for self-destruction:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17569-consumerism-is-eating-the-future.html?full=true&print=true
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Horgan has another piece on this topic at Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2224275/
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