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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Originally Posted by cmac2012:
More fevered brain spew/mega-fail. Have you ever read about or seen videos of tribal conflict between chimpanzees? Holy Shiite , them critters play for keeps. As is well known chimpanzees will bite the face off of primates they wish to subdue.
Stunning how hard you try to not get it. It's not a difficult concept. We see massive evidence of tribal competition and warfare among humans stretching back in our history, at least about 2500 years and we see it today's chimpanzees, and we are pretty sure that we have common ancestors with chimps, quite a few of them.
So it's no stretch to me to consider that tribal conflict and killing stretches back in the human species all the way to the common ancestor phase.
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Progress/advancement in our species is/was not made by tribal competitors. It is made in spite of them. The value of intellect/altruism is manifest in the fact that my species evolved. The chimps lack this evolved part, hence the branch we embark on does not include them. Somehow you strangely see the archaic lessor DNA as a feature not a bug. Which is only true if you wish to be a chimp. Focus on the differences. We evolved in a good way, chimps not so much. And this term you use, common ancestor ... The elusive missing link. We do not yet know our ancestor, let alone any commonality. You use this term without enough thought.