Humans and proto-humans have presumably done most of the fundamental things we do for a very long time. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colored-p

Humans and proto-humans have presumably done most of the fundamental things we do for a very long time. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colored-pigments-and-complex-tools-suggest-human-trade-100000-years-earlier-previously-believed-180968499/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colored-pigmen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_findings_for_hominid_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_findings_for_hominid_... There was inevitably conflict, but I'm skeptical of the "tendencies to rape and sexually conquer the opposition" framing. AFAIK there isn't much evidence for large amounts of inter-group violence. A paper like https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23751 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23751 lays out a contra case that the absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence--but I think it is a reason to be cautious about what we project back on those populations.