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August 21, 2009
Strange But True!
Q. If conflict is genetically programmed into our DNA, what hope do we humans have of ever taming the urge to war?
A. The premise sounds pretty fatalistic but it overlooks that peacemaking too is programmed into our DNA, says John Horgan in Scientific American magazine. Emory University anthropologist Frans B.M. de Waal studies primates and notes that while lethal conflict occurs among chimpanzees — our closest genetic relatives — they reconcile after fighting by hugging, mouth and hand kissing, mutual grooming, food sharing.
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