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...LeBlanc cites groups as diverse as the Maoris of New Zealand and the Greek Mycenaeans to demonstrate that warfare was prevalent in both prehistoric and tribal societies...
...reason may be that humans are prone to aggressive behavior. LeBlanc cites the work of Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard Wrangham, who studied warfare among chimpanzees. LeBlanc observes that humans, like chimps, are not prone to warfare but to aggression, which leads to war. It is not true that some peoples are by nature more “peaceful” than others; all humans seem to be genetically programmed for aggression, he writes...
...even more common—but equally dangerous—myth proposes that tribal peoples lived in symbiotic relationships with the environment. LeBlanc attempts to debunk this myth as well...
...While LeBlanc acknowledges that peoples such as the Plains Indians in North America were knowledgeable about and respectful of their natural surroundings, they were not conservationists—they, too, had problems balancing population growth with limited natural resources...
...Warfare, LeBlanc believes, “has ultimately been a constant battle over scarce resources throughout the ages...