Seville Statement on Violence

How has the theory of evolution been used to analyze history? (Pick Two)

• It has been used to justify peace.

• It has been used to justify domination, genocide and slavery.

• It has been used to justify capitalism.

• It has been used to justify Marvel movies.

War could not be an inherited trait because...

• intra species killings are rare.

• inter species killings are rare.

Aggressive behavior is

• never beneficial

• valuable for building hierarchy, social bonding and cooperation

When you take an animal and breed it to be as aggressive as possible you get

• the same thing you would get in the wild

• something hyper-aggressive that you would never see in nature

Most of human behavior is based off of

• instinct

• choices based on conditioning and culture

War is

• instinctual

• an incredibly complex endeavor that cannot be directly linked to instinct

How we think about war will

• change nothing. Humans will do human things and war is one of them.

• impact how we behave and whether we continue to wage war on each other.