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photo courtesy of WebMuseum, Paris

The Rape of the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David, 1799
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photo: courtesy of Frans de Waal’s Living Links

CHIMPANZEES AND ROMANS
WHY BOTH MAKE WAR
an excerpt from
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History
by
Howard Bloom
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brain courtesy of Digital Anatomist Project

for a brilliant explanation of how
art and culture literally rewire the brain
see Dr. John Robert Skoyles’
“Motor perception and anatomical realism in Classical Greek art”
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full view of David’s Rape of the Sabine Women
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i click here for Rubens’ version of The Rape of the Sabine Women
i Giovanni di Bologna’s sculptural Rape of the Sabine Women.
i click here for another view of di Bologna’s Rape of the Sabine Women
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photo couresy of Webmuseum, Paris
i for a BIOGRAPHYof Jacques-Louis David
click here
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Nicolas Poussin’s Rape of the Sabine Women
courtesy the Artchive
i click here for one STORY
of the rape of the Sabine women
i click here for another
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for more on the evolutionary role of art, sex, and anger order
Global Brain
The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang
to the 21st Century

for the relationship between rape and war order The Lucifer Principle:
A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History
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