> Chimps have competition, conflict, some even call it ‘warfare’ between neighbouring troops. Groups of human teenagers in modern societies have conflict. But s

> Chimps have competition, conflict, some even call it ‘warfare’ between neighbouring troops. Groups of human teenagers in modern societies have conflict. But somehow Stone Age humans must’ve lived in some pre-historic la-la-land until some form of modernity spoiled us. Chimp warfare isn't particularly well understood and looks most similar to the warfare that extant tribes participate in, which is symbolic tit-for-tat, not the societal warfare that reached its peak with the Ancient empires like Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc. The conflict informs migration patterns but it doesn't lead to tribe-ending battles. Groups of human teenagers live and go to school with groups that are easily ten to a hundred times the size of an ancient tribe so it's not really comparable. It's like comparing the behavior of a wild wolf to a dozen held in a small cage in a zoo. They're going to behave completely differently in both scenarios.