The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (2019) by Richard Wrangham argues that humans became less reactive in interpersonal violence (self-domestication) but more capable of proactive organized violence, explaining both our prosocial nature and our wars.
Self-domestication hypothesis for human evolution; reconciles human prosociality with human capacity for organized violence.
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