Nature or nurture: is violence in our genes?

Nature or nurture? The quest to understand why humans kill one another has occupied the minds of philosophers, sociologists and psychologists for centuries. Are we innately violent, as Englishman Thomas Hobbes postulated in the 1650s, or is our behaviour influenced more by the environment we grow up in, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau theorised a century later?

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October 1, 2016 | Categories: Ethics, Psychology | Tags: behavioral science, evolution, evolutionary biology, peer reviewed, psychology, science, social science, violence | 1 Comment