We, Too, Are Violent Animals

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 4, 2013 | Jane Goodall

[Twotone]

Where does human savagery come from? The animal behaviorist Marc Bekoff, writing in Psychology Today after last month's awful events in Newtown, Conn., echoed a common view: It can't possibly come from nature or evolution. Harsh aggression, he wrote, is "extremely rare" in nonhuman animals, while violence is merely an odd feature of our own species, produced by a few wicked people. If only we could "rewild our hearts," he concluded, we might harness our "inborn goodness and optimism" and thereby return to our "nice, kind, compassionate, empathic" original selves.

[fattigermaster]

He apparently thinks Cro-Magnons came into existence sometime between the Old Tofu and Early Latte Age...

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!