|
The origins of war 战争的起源 Old soldiers? 古老的战士? The latest research suggests humans are notwarriors in their genes, after all 最新研究发现人类骨子里有的不是杀伐 EDWARD WILSON, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that war isembedded in our very nature. 艾德华威尔森是生物社会学领域的创始人。他曾经写道战争深植于我们的骨子里。 This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and otherstudents of human behaviour. 这种观点不仅生物社会学家普遍认同，人类学家以及一些研究人类行为的学者也认同。 They base it not only on thepropensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours but also on observations of theway those who still live a pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer life behave. 认同的基础有两点：现代的人们有与邻为敌的倾性;对那些仍然生活在农业社会以前的采集狩猎者的观察结果。 Add this to field studies of the sometimes violent behaviour of mankind s closest livingrelative, the chimpanzee, and the idea that making war is somehow in humanity s geneshas seemed quite plausible. | 
