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Wrangham's examples included rape and a behavior he terms "lethal raiding...
Wrangham suggested that lethal raiding might be related to hunting. In other words, nature selects in favor of the violent chimpanzee because that animal would be a more successful hunter. It might be possible, then, to substitute a rival of the same species for prey in the mind of the chimpanzee...
Male bonobos have not been observed to engage in lethal raiding, and incidents of violence against females...
...week before Christmas, and, this being a movie by the writer of Lethal Weapon and the director of Cliffhanger, the bad guys are trying to blast our working-mom heroine (Geena Davis) to hell. The villains--the usual CIA renegades--slaughter a couple of dozen bystanders at a train station while the heroine and a private eye she's retained (Samuel L. Jackson) dash to an upper floor. The dastards follow and shoot a deadly fireball their way. The only escape is from a high window, but below is a frozen pond. No problem: Davis blasts enough bullets into...
DIED. BOB DENT, 66, cancer patient; by lethal injection at the hand of Dr. Philip Nitschke; in the world's first legal mercy killing; in Darwin, Australia...