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Page 120. you (yes you) have a capacity for violence.

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The aggressive instincts that have their roots in resource competitiveness can obviously extend to full-blown violence. In fact, humans appear to have evolved facultative adaptations to murder and vengeance (Buss and Duntley, 2003) in order to preserve resources and ensure reproductive success and inclusive fitness (in the form of lost or gained resources, mates, or social status/reputation) in certain high-stakes situations, which are continuous with those found in other animal species (Ghiglieri, 1999). In other words, destruction lurks in everyone because it can result in improved inclusive fitness when properly triggered; no amount of enculturation will be able to eliminate this because it is a part of our neurobiology.