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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> would think a default expectation is that warfare was always there

It's an old debate [1].

Nobody was entirely right. Indivduals were generally altruistic and cooperative in group. Groups, meanwhile, were nasty and brutish to each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_nature

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