We could share most of our DNA with prehistoric Neanderthals, but apparently we didn’t get along with them.
“War is not a modern invention, but an ancient, fundamental part of our humanity,” wrote Dr. Nicholas Longrich in one piece for The conversation.
He suggests that our common love for warfare may have come from our close relatives, the chimpanzees, who engage in “cooperative aggression”.
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“Male chimpanzees routinely band together to attack and kill males from rival bands … This implies that 7 million years ago, the common ancestor of the chimpanzees and us developed cooperative aggression. In this case, the Neanderthals inherited the same tendencies, ”said Dr. Long.
He added that there is ample evidence that Neanderthals shared “our creative instincts” and made jewelry, art, shrines and weapons. And there is evidence that we also shared “destructive instincts”.
Prehistoric humans and Neanderthals show both “frequent head trauma” from blunt weapons such as clubs and “parrying fractures”, which are broken arms to ward off attackers.
“Some injuries may have been sustained while hunting, but the patterns are consistent with those predicted for a race at intertribal wars,” noted Dr. Long.
Dr. Longrich suggested that this could be why it took people so long to leave Africa, where we first evolved.
Neanderthals had established areas in every land mass we know as Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
As the people expanded their territory, clashes would soon ensue.
“It is extremely unlikely that modern humans met the Neanderthals and decided to just live and let live,” said Dr. Long.
“Instead, we must have tested their fighters for thousands of years, and we have lost again and again for thousands of years.”
Humans would eventually overcome the now-extinct Neanderthals, which Dr. Longrich attributed the ability to have superior long-range weapons such as spears and bows, as well as larger tribes, supported by better hunting and gathering techniques.
“In the end we won. But that wasn’t because they were less inclined to fight. In the end, we probably got better than them in the war, ”he said.
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