Report: Humans Evolved to be peaceful

No wonder the Christian right rejects evolution! What they hold sacred is obedience and control, and violence if you don't comply. A view of our species as inherently peaceful ruins their whole game plan, their whole obsession with humans as dark, stained, born bad sons a bitches who need saving, a view they hold because, IMO, they are deeply uncomfortable with their own sexuality, their very human natures, and fundie religion panders to such neurosis.

Anyway.

I'm glad to see this article, though the content here is somewhat troubling, because there was this Russian guy, Petr Kropotkin, who advocated cooperation as a primary mechanism of human evolution in his writing way back in the early 20th century.

This goes to what Amerikkka does best; remove context and sell weapons. And consume resources.

Anyway.

Of course, Amerikkkan school children are not taught Kropotkin, or weren't when I was a school child, because he is viewed as a dirty commie by our fearless cold warriors in government, but are taught Darwin, incorrectly, as the incorrect use of Darwin justifies the oligarchic capitalism practiced by the Amerikkkan ruling class.

Perfectly reasonable ideas are often suppressed for perfectly political reasons. And for reasons of greed. BushCo teaches the world is flat, Muslims are all terrorist barbarians, Israel and Amerikkka are above the law, global warming isn't real, Iran is making a nuclear bomb, Iraq was a military threat, Hugo Chavez is a threat to Amerikkka and the feudal system is alive and well. For starters.

Anyway.

I bumped into Kropotkin in a film class years and years ago. Yep. Someone mentioned him and I followed it up. Good for me. Krapotkin's ideas about people are implicit in this work.

Humans evolved to be peaceful, cooperative and social animals, not the predators modern mythology would have us believe, says an U.S. anthropologist.

Robert W. Sussman, of Washington University in St. Louis, goes against the prevailing view and argues that primates, including early humans, evolved not as hunters but as prey of many predators, including wild dogs and cats, hyenas, eagles and crocodiles.

"Our intelligence, cooperation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator," says Sussman, the author of, "Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators and Human Evolution."

The idea of "Man the Hunter" is the generally accepted paradigm of human evolution, says Sussman.

"It developed from a basic Judeo-Christian ideology of man being inherently evil, aggressive and a natural killer," Sussman told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in St. Louis. "In fact, when you really examine the fossil and living non-human primate evidence, that is just not the case."