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12th Eric Wolf Lecture Marcel Hénaff: Are We the Cruel Species? Violence, Language, and Cultural Differences

Where does human violence come from? It is probably primarily a legacy of evolution. It was then likely refined and amplified along with the emergence of language. Finally, it turned into identity-based hatred and cruelty, transforming cultural diversity and local differences into a source of conflicts akin to those among different species.