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Warfare is -or at least can be - an outgrowth of competition for limited resources. A place where the living is marginal would seem to make warfare *more* refined.


In a series of sci-fi stories I scribbled together, humanity meets a spacefaring race that is baffled by warfare. On their world they evolved up to the equivalent of the "caveman" stage when an extinction event wiped out all their competitors. they went from being gnawed upon by their "lions" "tigers" and "bears" to living in paradise. So they evolved the rudiments of intelligence through conflict, but then evolved true sentience and civilization in peaceful conditions. Maybe not the most likely, but it's what I got...





Well, we don't *know* that. Termites and spiders can make some pretty complex and seemingly inventive structures.


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