There is absolutely no evidence that prior to the megafauna extinctions, hunter gatherers groups were any less violent and murderous [1] than after the megafaun

There is absolutely no evidence that prior to the megafauna extinctions, hunter gatherers groups were any less violent and murderous [1] than after the megafauna extinctions. Scarcity would have always existed by virtue of the population always growing to the environment's carrying capacity for that population's level of technology. If killing a neighbor, or wiping out a neighboring tribe, isn't an expression of competitive scarcity-based mentality, I don't know what is. That kind of behavior has steadily declined as civilization has advanced. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-evidence-on-violent-deaths https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...