"Small bands of people living predominately off of foraging and a little bit of hunting, predominantly among people you have at the least, known your entire life if not surrounded by third cousins or closer, in a world in which there is a great deal of fluidity between different groups, in a world which there is not a whole lot in terms of material culture. This is how humans have spent most of their hominid history. And, no surprise, that makes for a very different world. One of the things you get as a result of that is far less violence. Organized group violence is not something that occurred at that time of human history and that seems quite clear. So, where did we go wrong?"
Dr. Robert Sapolsky (via cultureofresistance)
(Source: socialuprooting, via socialuprooting)
