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Jane Goodall

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall is saying that war appears to be something only humans do, based on what we know from history. She points out that stories about fighting have been recorded since the earliest times and happen in almost every human society.

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