Do Wars End Only When We Do? | Human Nature & Violence

WAR IS NOT A MISTAKE.

Violence didn’t begin with civilisation. It didn’t begin with weapons. It didn’t begin with history.

Archaeology reveals something disturbing: before cities, before language — humans were already killing each other.

Mass graves remain. Shattered skulls. Weapons embedded in bone. Bound hands.

From Kenya to Neolithic Europe, entire human groups were erased.

Not chaos — but structure: coalitions, strategy, territory.

The same pattern repeats across time and continents — even today.

This isn’t just history. It’s a condition.

Violence is too consistent to be accidental.

👉 Next: Brain and DNA.

🔬 Sources:
Gómez et al., Nature (2016) — evolutionary roots of human violence
👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19758
Nataruk massacre, PNAS — prehistoric evidence of group killing
👉 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1504365112
Wrangham, PNAS (2018) — proactive vs reactive aggression
👉 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5777045/