Aggression and Human Evolution
Anger Management (Widescreen Edition)
Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Homo Sapiens possesses features that are located so far out at the extremes of the bell shaped primate curve that they invite the curious to explore them. One of these is the capacity for aggression among humans, particularly the male of the species, and the pleasure most men so obviously derive from hunting and killing other animals… Our aggression has not only been outwardly directed at other species. Intraspecies mayhem - in the form of wars, duels, fights, persecutions, diabolical tortures, and genocides due to ethnic, racial and religious hatred - has no parallel in the animal world. The sexual aggression exhibited by some human males toward females is without correspondence in the wild…
[…] The major rise in our killing prowess occured primarily in the last hundred thousand years, with the sharpest spike limited to the last forty thousand. […]
Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all its creatures. The soberest conclusion we can make is that the planet is being turned into a vast pit of fertilizer.
Quoted from the book Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain