Bonobos and Chimpanzees, Foragers and Farmers, and the Origins of War

Newsletter Editor John M Repp starts this article with the question, ‘Why would I write an essay about our closest animal relatives and their dominance systems in a newsletter of WWFOR, a group that writes on its masthead that they want “to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, equality, peace and justice?” Good question!’  Read his article which touches on matriarchy, evolution, geology, meteorology, and more at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BobonosAndChimps.pdf.