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> chimps and gorillas for millenia and they are furry, cannibalistic, violent tribal monsters

Gorillas are largely vegetarian, and generally peaceful. Humans are much better example of “violent tribal monsters” than gorillas.

Cf. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1977/12/25/t...

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Are they? http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161128-groups-of-gorillas-h...

Easy enough to guess how that works.

Give chimps/gorillas/humans enough territory and they're peaceful, make them compete with others of the same species for limited resources and they'll turn violent.

I don't need much more than basic evolutionary theory to support that.

Maybe you’re right about gorillas, but chimps are much more closely related to us, and they’re hyperviolent at times, engaging in (essentially) genocide, just like us humans.

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