The ABC showed a program on apes a few months back where they murdered each other. Why? Some kind of complex social reason from memory.
With more intelligence comes more power and seemingly more destruction on a grander scale.
It makes me wonder if any alien race can survive the technology hurdle. In the universe perhaps it is the norm for the dominant race of the planet to grow smart and then self destruct long before they get the chance to travel to the stars?
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