Minds Designed for Murder?

Over at the Mind Hacks Blog, Tom Stafford refers to the intriguing theory by the evolutionary pscychologist David Buss that homicide is an evolutionary adaptation that we all share.

As Bill Hill has pointed out, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, our operating system is Homo Sapiens 1.0, it’s been in place, without any upgrade, for at least 100,000 years, and the design parameters that were used in its creation apply to very few of today’s humans.