“Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.”
David Livingstone Smith
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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