Genocide is not enough?

Why do we humans still engage in war although the next global confrontation will end civilization as we know it? One of the central questions in our doc THE THAW OF WAR.

In our research we're going back in history - way back - in order to find out how evolution has its share in this. And it certainly does. There are clues that our "team aggression" is something we inherited from our ancestors. And we still act by it on a daily basis.

And I stumbled over something else: It's very likely that we humans had our share in the extinction of the Neanderthals. This would make the Neanderthals the very first species we "modern" humans annihilated in our history. At least that we know of. So genocide is not where we draw the line? We also go for "specicide"?

I added this link to a video about DID MAN KILL NEANDERTHALS.

One thing in this video: Towards the end they talk about determining the genes of Neanderthals. Since they put this video online this process evolved. The Max Planck Institute in Leipzig now completed a first rough draft of the Neanderthal genome just a month ago. The genetic evidence suggests that humans and Neanderthals are very similar, but that the two species probably didn’t interbreed.


By the way if you want to listen to something your and my ancestor has possibly "specicized":
Using 50,000-year-old fossils from France and a computer synthesizer, a science team has generated a recording of how a Neanderthal would pronounce the letter “e.”