Some comments in the 12 May issue of New Scientist make interesting reading.Social scientists have long explored the basis for much social behaviour such as altruism and jealousy as agents in the process of evolution,but httle has been heard about gratuitous cruelty.Nevertheless,individuals and groups have shown almost unbelievable cruelty in dealing with one another over the centuries,and such behaviour must have at least some biological basis.
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