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A New Kind of Cruelty: The Emergence of Warfare


While humans have attacked and killed one another since the dawn of our lineage, coordinated, large-scale lethal violence between groups is a recent phenomenon. Read short article at
https://mailchi.mp/f74025cf22bb/a-new-kind-of-cruelty-the-emergence-of-warfare

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