What is the "State of Nature"?
Are we, in fact, uniquely separate from the other animals? Common sense, religion and mythology all say that we are, but modern biology and evolutionary psychology beg to differ. According to Darwin’s theory of evolution, we too must have evolved by natural selection, which means, it seems, that the differences between humans and our closest ancestors are only a matter of degree. Trouble is, our closest ancestors are not with us anymore. We only know of them because archaeologists have uncovered their bones in Africa, Asia, and Europe. We have to go back six million years ago, to the time when our ancestors left the African forest and split from the common descendant to find modern living examples , chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living animal relatives Modern human DNA is ninety-eight percent the same as chimps and we are separated by six million years of evolution. In that time, We started to walk upright, we invented stone knives, our bodies became talle