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Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2024
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The capacities required for both peace and war predate 100,000 years ago in the genus Homo are deeply entangled in the modes by which humans physically and perceptually construct their worlds and communities, and may not be sufficiently captured by economic models.
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