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    17. Jane Goodall, Among The Wild Chimpanzees.

    18. Michael Ghiglieri, "War Among The Chimps," p. 68.  When Ghiglieri visited

    Africa, he was convinced that war among the chimps may have been an indirect

    human creation.  To lure the chimps of Gombe into viewing distance, Jane Goodall

    had laid out clusters of bananas, a food which soon became the backbone of the

    animals' diet.  Much, much later, Goodall decided to stop the handouts of simian

    welfare, and left the primates to gather food for themselves.  A few years after this

    change in policy, the chimps began to make war.  Ghiglieri suspected that the

    provisioning of food by humans had set the stage for a violence that wouldn't have

    occurred without it.  His years studying unprovisioned chimps in Kibale, however,

    convinced him he was wrong.  Chimpanzees, he concluded, were subject to

    periodic outbreaks of war...with or without a human lending hand.  (See Michael P.

    Ghiglieri, East of the Mountains of the Moon, Free Press, New York, 1988, pp. 8-9,

    258-259.)

    19. For a bit of historical background on the concept of superior feminine morality,

    see Reay Tannahill, Sex In History, pp. 390-91.  Historian Joan Kelly summed up

    the prevailing notion when she said, "I know, in the depth of my being and in all my

    knowledge of history and humanity, I know women will struggle for a social order of

    peace, equality and joy...."  (quoted in Antonia Fraser, The Warrior Queens, Alfred

    A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1989,  p. 7.)

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