Humans less likeable with modern language

[Blobbenstein]

but for some reason the scientific community jumps all over it.

maybe it is to do with research money...they have to stick together and reinforce each other's legitimacy in science, so they get the funding.
If it is nearly impossible to study chimps in the wild, then who would fund them, and how would the scientists make their names?
Science isn't as pure as people like Brian Cox want people to think it is.

 

[Clueless Git]

... resource based civilization is what necessitated the need for violence as a survival mechanism. If they're planting seeds, they have tied themselves to a specific geographical location that must be defended or can be taken from someone else.

Resources (necessitating violence) I would agree with. Planting seeds, nah, though.

Battles for territories with the best natural resources are common in totaly uncivilised species.

Killing the young of others of own species (presumably to lessen competition for your own progeny) is also not an uncommon practice in some animals.

The survival mechanism itself, the instinct to fight for resources however occuring, would appear to be the root necessitator of violence.


Afterthought; Even bacteria 'fight' for resources. Penicillium being a good example. They conduct chemical warfare against other bacteria to protect resources for their own population expansion.