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Chimpanzees certainly don't engage in warfare, unless you want to anthropomorphic chimpanzees and change the nomenclature of warfare.

While chimpanzees certainly hit each other, they have not been observed much to kill one another, unless humans artificially modify their feeding environments and territories.




Wars between groups of chimps are well documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War


As I said, "they have not been observed much to kill one another, unless humans artificially modify their feeding environments and territories". You linked to a page with a large picture at the top of a feeding station where "humans artificially modify their feeding environments and territories".


holy cow they even ave that side panel where they show the strengths on both sides with commanders and the outcome of the war. this is eerie


Is that the only one ever documented, because it's the only one I ever see sourced.



Could the chimps have learned these behaviors from us? Maybe chimpanzees are bonobos that live too close to humans?


More like chimpanzees by nature preceded humanity. We are mostly likely some derivative of them through some sort of eugenic (natural or not its unknown) process that helped us gain consciousness of the highest degree.

It's likely that certain pharmacological byproduct consumed shaped and formed our awareness, the same way alcohol and tobacco have produced our modern male dominated society.

Think about this. A chimpanzee encounters a strange mushroom, consumes it, suddenly begins to attain visual acuity which allows him more information gathering about the surroundings. Not to mention conceptualization, abstraction all of which are basic building blocks of human consciousness.

We might be a decendant of group of primates that successfully mastered fire manipulation. Cooked meat has far more nutrients and proteins that further help develop ouir brain.

Just running on bits and pieces I read here and there and its fun to entertain the thought of how we emerged as a dominant species. I'm under the school of thought that there was some informational/knowledge transfer that radically set us apart from the rest. Emergence of consciousness and our continued expansion of our awareness seems very much real.


Care to elaborate some about how alcohol and tobacco produced male dominated society?


very, very interesting


Wait until you hear about ants





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