How, if at all, does it help us to understand the differences between human and animal societies, seen in the context of the long term process of biological evolution? ... As there have no other intelligent, sentient cultures living with us on Earth, our contrast has to come from the animal kingdom. ... Whether or not this view of a possibly uncultured existence can help us understand more about our relationship with animals in the biological long-term is certainly in question. ... In reality these rules are merely instincts driven by Darwin's principle of survival of the fittest. ......

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The insatiable need to purchase, own, and consume has become so profoundly entrenched in twentieth-century Americans that their resurrected corpses are persistently driven by identical instincts and desires. ... Without labor, the characters are not able to become self-aware of their situation and when they lose this productive labor, the unaware individuals living in Romero's mall eventually fail to see what makes them essentially ' 'human,'' and they relapse to a more primitive, animal state...

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Contemporaneously other theories uphold the belief that individuals withhold a natural instinct to behave violently, which requires very little motivation, therefore believing that violence is the result of a failed constraint or control. ... It is believed that whilst carrying out violence the individual, animal or symbol "reduces" an object, and negates some aspects of its being (Jackson-Jacobs, 2010). ...

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This was the common belief at this time "research such as Lorenz" (1974 cited in Brown 2007) put forward a biological theory arguing that conflict could be explained in terms of intrinsic aggressive instincts Tajfel believed that this 'blood and guts' model as he coined them did not account for the waxing and waning of political conflicts throughout the world. ...

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