ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some ideas about emergent warfare. It traces a somewhat abstract picture with very broad brushstrokes. The chapter offers a "just-so" story, conjecture on what it perceive as the likely key building blocks of behaviors that contributed in some fashion to both emergent warfare, and, in many similar ways, emergent peacefare. It also presents interpretations of available data, noting that some of the conclusions are more speculative than others. There is still much room for debate and contrasting opinions. The chapter argues that such capacities were fundamentally necessary for emergent warfare. But that is just one side of the story. As a behavioral pattern, socially cooperative violence would have been a very important foundation for emergent warfare. However, the data are starting to support a gradual transformation, and it is indisputably clear that we were human far earlier than 12,000 years ago.
