and what made the circumstances of this crime unusually strange at the dawn of scientific research there were two opposing points of view on the nature of man on the one hand was Thomas Hobbes
who suggested that the nature of Homo sapiens is extremely violent and the entire evolutionary development of mankind is a war of all against all on the other hand there was a Jean Jacques Rousseau
who believed that human civilization was built on cooperation and the desire to be a full member of a social group the debate between these two sides exists to this day who is really right Hobbes or Russo what is the real nature of man to clarify the case of the corpses discovered in the Spanish cave scientists decided to study the remains in closer detail
they assembled a skull from 52 fragments scattered along the bottom of the cave then determined his age it turned out that the person the skull belonged to lived approximately four hundred and thirty thousand years ago however this was not what surprised scientists most of the researchers attention was focused on two fractures above the left eye they had the same outline and were completely identical at first scientists suggested that the injuries occurred when falling to the bottom of the cave however in Sima de los huesos there is nothing that could cause such a symmetrical fracture in addition no signs of healing were found in the injured area this means that the injury either caused death or happened posthumously scientists began to study the skull fractures in more detail and came to the conclusion that they resulted from a blow from a stone spear or axe that is it was an intentional murder judging by the location of the fractures the attacker struck the area above the left eye with his right hand several times after that the killer dragged the lifeless body and dropped it to the bottom of the cave of Sima de los besos however the murdered man seemed to have been far from the only victim of severe physical violence because besides him the remains of another
28 people were found in the cave no traces of violent death were found on the other skeletons but scientists are sure that the people were already dead when they were dropped to the bottom of the cave it's possible that there were several criminals who committed the first-ever Massacre known to mankind or maybe it was some serial maniac is noteworthy that such a crime occurred at least
130 thousand years before the appearance of the first Homo sapiens the killer liked his victims belonged to the early species of humans it could be assumed that only the distant predecessors of Homo sapiens were brutal killers and the intelligent man is a more peaceful creature but this is far from the truth the first Homo sapiens only continued down the path of violence that their ancestors had another discovery only confirms this during the Second World War human remains were discovered in the Romanian cave of Cioclovina
among which was also a skull with unusual injuries
these remains were dated to about 33,000 years ago for a long time scientists couldn't explain the wounds found and only seventy years later with the advent of modern high quality equipment where the researchers able to solve this crime scientists created several molds of the head from a material that mimics the properties of real bones then the experimenters threw it from different heights and also tested various murder weapons such as a baseball bat and fragments of volcanic stones on the model the head was hit in two positions when it rested on a hard surface in case the victim was lying on the ground at the time of the murder then also in an upright position in case the victim was standing during the after a series of simulated attacks on the artificial head scientists compared the data with CT scans of the actual skull as in the case of the previously suspected killing there were no signs of healing on the skull therefore the blow most likely caused death the hypothesis that injuries were caused after death was ruled out indeed otherwise the bones would be old and dry at the time of impact so the fracture would have sharp edges however bone fragments flowed very smoothly inside which indicates that at the time of the blow there was soft brain tissue inside the skull that is the person was still alive at the time of injury but the victim did not die instantly and the blows themselves were few the first blow happened when the person fell face down probably after being pushed after that the victim rose back to his feet the second injury was then received directly from the attacker the blow was delivered with a blunt object after which the bone fragments flew off to the back of the skull this indicates that the killer was face to face with the victim since the blows were on the right side of the head scientists suggested that the attacker was left-handed this case was one of the first killings known to scientist to have kurd among Homo sapiens in modern times we often tend to blame violence on the media computer games or violent films however the killers I just described didn't play fallout or watch the bloody comedies of Quentin Tarantino in fact the root of the problem lies much deeper evolutionary biologists believe that the cause of modern violence is natural selection our ancestors who had a propensity towards cruelty simply killed all their peace-loving kindred therefore only violent people could continue to rule the clan as a result the genes responsible for aggression were preserved in the evolutionary development of man passed on to subsequent generations and finally reached us but despite the fact that every person has a tendency towards aggressive behavior only some of us are capable of real atrocities the fact is that in addition to aggression evolution has also endowed us with empathy and sympathy since our survival has always depended to a large extent on interaction with other people the ability to empathize and collaborate allowed for coexistence with our own kind however some are simply devoid of this quality in psychiatry such people are called sociopaths and Psychopaths due to a lack of emotions such members of the human race seek the thrill of destroying their own car or hurting others whether this antisocial personality disorder is innate or is a consequence of the influence of upbringing and the surrounding social environment remains an open question however to commit a murder it's not necessary to be a psychopath it's enough just to have a very close emotional connection with your potential victim the US Bureau of Statistics data confirms this according to statistics about 30 percent of all female murder victims suffered their fate at the hands of their own spouses another eighteen point three percent of women are killed by former spouses only eight point seven percent of murdered women are victims of strangers this is because in emotionally charged situations people often act impulsively and irrationally which can lead to shocking and irreversible consequences answering the question that I asked at the beginning regarding human nature we can say with confidence that both statements are true human nature can be both destructive and creep aggression has helped the human race to survive in the adverse conditions of the primitive world and become the dominant species on the planet at the same time this ability to collaborate and empathize with others has helped us create oral and written speech science art and culture and most importantly we managed to curb our own animal instincts at least a little despite the fact that acts of violence still occur for most modern people killing is something completely wrong and unacceptable this gives us hope that over time violence will become just an unnecessary relic of the past what do you think the motive of the primeval killings from this article was right your guests in the comments you
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