Human Race Is War

The story of the Human species is a bloody and deadly one. Our history is riddled with countless amounts of heinous conflicts between groups of humans, known as war. War has been constantly shaping the history of mankind since the dawn of the earliest forms of civilization. Often enough, war may be regarded as the story of our species, driving the world to constantly change and evolve. One noteworthy man, who has been regarded as one of the greatest significant politicians and war time leaders of all time, Winston Churchill, agreed with this position. In 1924, in a period between two of the most destructive armed conflicts the world has ever seen, Churchill stated that “the story of the human race is war”. Overall, this statement is reasonably …show more content…
Despite this, one might think that war is also a natural part of society, but this is not the case. War is a result of an extreme levels of aggression. Based off a study performed by two anthropologists, Dr, Douglas Fry and Dr. Patrick Soderberg, it has been shown that war is not all that common as we would think. This study, consisted of 21 tribal societies that lived by hunting and foraging, or also known as mobile forager band societies. These societies were used to help exemplify how humans might have lived about 10,000 years ago and helped the two researchers to depict that war is not an evolved component of human behavior. In this study, Dr. Douglas and Dr. Soderber defined war as “coalitions of members of a group seek to inflict bodily harm on one or more members of another group. ‘groups’ are independent political units” (this definition is defined as such due to the small nature of the observed tribes). At the conclusion of this study 148 lethal events of aggression were observed. Of those 148 events, 55% of the events had one killer and one victim. Similarly, 85% of the killings occurred where the killer and victim belonged to the same social group. The remaining 15% of the killings occurred between two different social groups. Out of this remaining 15%, an exceptionally small amount …show more content…
The act of war, is a mere result of the human innate of aggression response to a dangerous situation. War will always leave a lasting impact on our world and will always continue to do so. War has the ability to drastically change every element of life, as it has done so constantly in the past. When war isn’t occurring, the fear of having one occur is always there, shaping the way individuals make decision, thus making it the story of the human