Quote: (09-23-2016 04:14 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

Two is that a lot blacks just straight up don't like whites, they don't care about facts. Feelings don't care about facts. Hate doesn't care about facts. I would call that feeling 'resentment' and I think it is very common in that population, with differing intensity. I fear it has become an integral part of identity.

Exactly right, the reality is that lots of black people simply don't like whites and will use whatever excuse they can to show how they really feel, facts have nothing to do with it.

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:19 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote:  

There's a very good dissertation by survivalist and ex-Navy SEAL author Matt Bracken outlining exactly what such civil unrest in the United States could entail. I'll repost it here in its entirety, as it's an extremely interesting if disturbing read (apologies for the length):

<snip>

I think Ive posted that one and a few others here before, a very chilling and prescient essay. Even more so when one realizes he wrote it 4 years ago. In a debt funding crisis absent covert or overt monetization, the govt will have to rely on tax receipts to fund itself. Im under no illusions as to who they would choose to fund: EBT or SSDI pensioners? Only one of those groups will burn cities to the ground if they don't get "theirs".


One way to lose both sympathy and the tacit approval to riot? Fuck around with Joe Six-Pack's Sunday sports ball and the city's tax revenue.



These people are ridiculous.

Quote:Quote:

WE DEMAND

1. THE IMMEDIATE END TO THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, CURFEW & THE REMOVAL OF THE NATIONAL GUARD

2. THE IMMEDIATE DEMILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE IMMEDIATE RETURN OF ALL MILITARY EQUIPMENT

3. THE DEFUNDING OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT (2017 Budget: $246,644,617) AND THE REDIRECTION OF THOSE RESOURCES TO THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES (INCLUDING RESOURCES FOR JOBS PROGRAMS, AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HOLISTIC HEALTH AND QUALITY SCHOOLS)

4. AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT AND AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND A FREEZE ON THE NEARLY 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS AWARDED IN FEDERAL GRANTS ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENT

5. A RELEASE OF THE POLICE REPORT AND BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT & ALL OTHER KILLINGS TO THE PUBLIC AND IMMEDIATELY REPEAL OF HB 972, WHICH RESTRICTS THE ABILITY OF THE PUBLIC TO ACCESS POLICE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE

6. THE IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL THOSE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE UPRISING RESULTING FROM THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT & THE DROPPING OF ALL CHARGES

7. THE RELEASE OF ALL THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT TO THE PUBLIC FOLLOWED BY THEIR FIRING, ARREST AND PROSECUTION

8. REPARATIONS FOR THE FAMILY OF KEITH L. SCOTT AND ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE AS WELL AS THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED

9. COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE POLICE, STARTING WITH THE CREATION OF A CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT BOARD THAT HAS THE POWER TO HIRE AND FIRE OFFICERS, DETERMINE DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS AS WELL AS DICTATE POLICE POLICIES, PRIORITIES, AND BUDGETS. THE BOARD SHALL NOT INCLUDE POLICE REPRESENTATION AND WILL BE CONTROLLED BY COMMUNITIES MOST IMPACTED BY POLICING AND INCARCERATION IN CHARLOTTE.

10. AN END TO THE REPRESSION & TARGETING OF PROTESTORS AND ALL THOSE ENGAGED IN THE CHARLOTTE UPRISING

CharlotteUprising.com yea ok, these guys aren't getting funding and logistics from outside sources

Ex-Marine (Bruce Garmon?) arrested outside Panthers game with pistol in his backpack. This fucker is from Grand Rapids MICHIGAN. Link

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Name: BRUCE ERIC GARMON
Date of Birth: 2/12/1986

Race & Sex: B M

Height: 5' 8'' Weight: 140

Address: CHARLOTTE NC 28269

Date of Arrest: 08/19/2016 Time: 15:55

Booking Agency: CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT



Arrest Type
Charge Description
Bond $ Amount
Traffic
DWLR NOT IMPAIRED REV
500.00
Traffic
GIVE/LEND/BORROW LIC PLATE
500.00

What happens when the drunk country boys leave after the game is over?

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:51 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:24 PM)Thersites Wrote:  

^ In psychiatry, someone like Mr. Scott is group into Cluster B Personality Disorders, more specifically Antisocial Personality Disorders. They are pretty much sociopath with disregard of other people's right and rules in general. They only care about themselves. There is no treatment of a person with this personality disorder. Only option are jail and death for such a person.

Honestly speaking, death would be preferable, IKE above has inferred as much. Sociopaths are not nice people, they're horrible awful people who destroy everything the touch and bring suffering and pain in their wake. They are not cool or made for TV, they're not even human. If you have ever known a real sociopath (not in the way girls call their ex-bfs), a real stone cold sociopath, then you know the moment you realize they have no soul, no empathy, no normal human feelings. First you get terrified, like ice touches your spine, then fear is replaced by intense anger and a desire to destroy the sociopath. This reaction must be inborn and genetic. It's a kind of disgust like nothing else.

Europeans used to be a hell of a lot more violent just a few hundred years ago. This was solved by execution of violent criminals. After a few hundred years, so many sociopaths had been killed, the population as a whole became less violent. This is well documented.

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The war on murder – 12th to 17th centuries

Murder was normally a personal matter to be settled by the victim’s family, through vengeance or a cash settlement.

This situation began to change in the 12th century. One reason was that the State had become stronger. But there also had been an ideological change. The State no longer saw itself as an honest broker for violent disputes that did not challenge its existence. Jurists were now arguing that the king must punish the wicked to ensure that the good may live in peace. The Church itself was coming around to this view through what may be called a medieval synthesis of Christian morality:

[…] a reaction arose beginning in the 11th century against the previous system of monetary compensation. Henceforth, increasingly, it was felt that money could not be a sufficient compensation for such an infraction. The idea that the murder of a man is a crime too serious, an offence too manifest to the order of Creation, to be simply “compensated” by a sum of money was present from the early 11th century onward in the thinking of some bishops (Carbassse, 2011, p. 38)

And so began the war on murder. From the 12th to 17th centuries, capital punishment became steadily more prevalent. We see this in an increasing willingness to use it not only for murder but also for other crimes (rape, abortion, infanticide, lèse majesté, theft, counterfeiting, etc.). We also see this in the use of ‘exemplary’ punishment: drawing and quartering, breaking on the wheel, and burning. Beginning in the 13th and 14th centuries, we see cases of a murderer being buried alive in a casket placed underneath the victim’s casket (Carbasse, 2011, p. 53).

Then, after the 17th century, the war on murder began to go into reverse. It had been largely won, and public sympathy now shifted to the condemned man. In England, the homicide rate fell by over a hundred-fold between 1300 and 1900 (Eisner, 2001). Europeans were becoming kinder and gentler, and this pacification of social relations would make possible much of what we call modernity: the expansion of the market economy; a growing freedom to live among total strangers; the rise of the individual as an autonomous, self-maximizing being, and so on.

But this pacification also had a down side. We now take it for granted. If people act violently, to the point of committing murder, we assume there must be a very good reason. Otherwise, why would they have done it?

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com.au/2013/...ntler.html

Quote: (09-26-2016 01:39 AM)infowarrior1 Wrote:  

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:51 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:24 PM)Thersites Wrote:  

^ In psychiatry, someone like Mr. Scott is group into Cluster B Personality Disorders, more specifically Antisocial Personality Disorders. They are pretty much sociopath with disregard of other people's right and rules in general. They only care about themselves. There is no treatment of a person with this personality disorder. Only option are jail and death for such a person.

Honestly speaking, death would be preferable, IKE above has inferred as much. Sociopaths are not nice people, they're horrible awful people who destroy everything the touch and bring suffering and pain in their wake. They are not cool or made for TV, they're not even human. If you have ever known a real sociopath (not in the way girls call their ex-bfs), a real stone cold sociopath, then you know the moment you realize they have no soul, no empathy, no normal human feelings. First you get terrified, like ice touches your spine, then fear is replaced by intense anger and a desire to destroy the sociopath. This reaction must be inborn and genetic. It's a kind of disgust like nothing else.

Europeans used to be a hell of a lot more violent just a few hundred years ago. This was solved by execution of violent criminals. After a few hundred years, so many sociopaths had been killed, the population as a whole became less violent. This is well documented.

Quote:Quote:

The war on murder – 12th to 17th centuries

Murder was normally a personal matter to be settled by the victim’s family, through vengeance or a cash settlement.

This situation began to change in the 12th century. One reason was that the State had become stronger. But there also had been an ideological change. The State no longer saw itself as an honest broker for violent disputes that did not challenge its existence. Jurists were now arguing that the king must punish the wicked to ensure that the good may live in peace. The Church itself was coming around to this view through what may be called a medieval synthesis of Christian morality:

[…] a reaction arose beginning in the 11th century against the previous system of monetary compensation. Henceforth, increasingly, it was felt that money could not be a sufficient compensation for such an infraction. The idea that the murder of a man is a crime too serious, an offence too manifest to the order of Creation, to be simply “compensated” by a sum of money was present from the early 11th century onward in the thinking of some bishops (Carbassse, 2011, p. 38)

And so began the war on murder. From the 12th to 17th centuries, capital punishment became steadily more prevalent. We see this in an increasing willingness to use it not only for murder but also for other crimes (rape, abortion, infanticide, lèse majesté, theft, counterfeiting, etc.). We also see this in the use of ‘exemplary’ punishment: drawing and quartering, breaking on the wheel, and burning. Beginning in the 13th and 14th centuries, we see cases of a murderer being buried alive in a casket placed underneath the victim’s casket (Carbasse, 2011, p. 53).

Then, after the 17th century, the war on murder began to go into reverse. It had been largely won, and public sympathy now shifted to the condemned man. In England, the homicide rate fell by over a hundred-fold between 1300 and 1900 (Eisner, 2001). Europeans were becoming kinder and gentler, and this pacification of social relations would make possible much of what we call modernity: the expansion of the market economy; a growing freedom to live among total strangers; the rise of the individual as an autonomous, self-maximizing being, and so on.

But this pacification also had a down side. We now take it for granted. If people act violently, to the point of committing murder, we assume there must be a very good reason. Otherwise, why would they have done it?

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com.au/2013/...ntler.html

And so we enter human biodiversity territory. Is violence an inherited trait? Sociopathy?

Quote: (09-25-2016 05:42 PM)Adonis Wrote:  

These people are ridiculous.

Quote:Quote:

WE DEMAND

1. THE IMMEDIATE END TO THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, CURFEW & THE REMOVAL OF THE NATIONAL GUARD
in other words, stop doing that stuff that's returning law and order.
2. THE IMMEDIATE DEMILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE IMMEDIATE RETURN OF ALL MILITARY EQUIPMENT
that would be reasonable if you weren't demanding...>
3. THE DEFUNDING OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT (2017 Budget: $246,644,617) AND THE REDIRECTION OF THOSE RESOURCES TO THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES (INCLUDING RESOURCES FOR JOBS PROGRAMS, AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HOLISTIC HEALTH AND QUALITY SCHOOLS)
more money poured into the hood, because that's always worked before...
4. AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT AND AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND A FREEZE ON THE NEARLY 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS AWARDED IN FEDERAL GRANTS ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENT
yeah, didn't you guys already render your own verdict and deliver "justice"?
5. A RELEASE OF THE POLICE REPORT AND BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT & ALL OTHER KILLINGS TO THE PUBLIC AND IMMEDIATELY REPEAL OF HB 972, WHICH RESTRICTS THE ABILITY OF THE PUBLIC TO ACCESS POLICE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE
see above. why should anyone bother? If it turns out the cops were right are you assholes going to fix all the shit you broke and apologise to the people you bashed and robbed?
6. THE IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL THOSE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE UPRISING RESULTING FROM THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT & THE DROPPING OF ALL CHARGES
fuck you
7. THE RELEASE OF ALL THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT TO THE PUBLIC FOLLOWED BY THEIR FIRING, ARREST AND PROSECUTION
fuck you
8. REPARATIONS FOR THE FAMILY OF KEITH L. SCOTT AND ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE AS WELL AS THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED
after you fuckwits pay recompense for all the shit you did in retaliation...
9. COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE POLICE, STARTING WITH THE CREATION OF A CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT BOARD THAT HAS THE POWER TO HIRE AND FIRE OFFICERS, DETERMINE DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS AS WELL AS DICTATE POLICE POLICIES, PRIORITIES, AND BUDGETS. THE BOARD SHALL NOT INCLUDE POLICE REPRESENTATION AND WILL BE CONTROLLED BY COMMUNITIES MOST IMPACTED BY POLICING AND INCARCERATION IN CHARLOTTE.
you mean the one you just demanded be defunded to pay for your bullshit community outreach programs? Talk about short attention spans.
10. AN END TO THE REPRESSION & TARGETING OF PROTESTORS AND ALL THOSE ENGAGED IN THE CHARLOTTE UPRISING
be careful what you wish for. when the police pull out the rest of the population will take care of the situation somewhat more efficiently.

Quote:Quote:

10. AN END TO THE REPRESSION & TARGETING OF PROTESTORS AND ALL THOSE ENGAGED IN THE CHARLOTTE UPRISING

So people will be free to loot, destroy and vandalise property and assault people? Good idea!

Quote: (09-26-2016 04:08 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  

Quote: (09-25-2016 05:42 PM)Adonis Wrote:  

These people are ridiculous.

Quote:Quote:

WE DEMAND

1. THE IMMEDIATE END TO THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, CURFEW & THE REMOVAL OF THE NATIONAL GUARD
in other words, stop doing that stuff that's returning law and order.
2. THE IMMEDIATE DEMILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE IMMEDIATE RETURN OF ALL MILITARY EQUIPMENT
that would be reasonable if you weren't demanding...>
3. THE DEFUNDING OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT (2017 Budget: $246,644,617) AND THE REDIRECTION OF THOSE RESOURCES TO THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES (INCLUDING RESOURCES FOR JOBS PROGRAMS, AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HOLISTIC HEALTH AND QUALITY SCHOOLS)
more money poured into the hood, because that's always worked before...
4. AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT AND AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND A FREEZE ON THE NEARLY 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS AWARDED IN FEDERAL GRANTS ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENT
yeah, didn't you guys already render your own verdict and deliver "justice"?
5. A RELEASE OF THE POLICE REPORT AND BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT & ALL OTHER KILLINGS TO THE PUBLIC AND IMMEDIATELY REPEAL OF HB 972, WHICH RESTRICTS THE ABILITY OF THE PUBLIC TO ACCESS POLICE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE
see above. why should anyone bother? If it turns out the cops were right are you assholes going to fix all the shit you broke and apologise to the people you bashed and robbed?
6. THE IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL THOSE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE UPRISING RESULTING FROM THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT & THE DROPPING OF ALL CHARGES
fuck you
7. THE RELEASE OF ALL THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF KEITH L. SCOTT TO THE PUBLIC FOLLOWED BY THEIR FIRING, ARREST AND PROSECUTION
fuck you
8. REPARATIONS FOR THE FAMILY OF KEITH L. SCOTT AND ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE AS WELL AS THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED
after you fuckwits pay recompense for all the shit you did in retaliation...
9. COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE POLICE, STARTING WITH THE CREATION OF A CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT BOARD THAT HAS THE POWER TO HIRE AND FIRE OFFICERS, DETERMINE DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS AS WELL AS DICTATE POLICE POLICIES, PRIORITIES, AND BUDGETS. THE BOARD SHALL NOT INCLUDE POLICE REPRESENTATION AND WILL BE CONTROLLED BY COMMUNITIES MOST IMPACTED BY POLICING AND INCARCERATION IN CHARLOTTE.
you mean the one you just demanded be defunded to pay for your bullshit community outreach programs? Talk about short attention spans.
10. AN END TO THE REPRESSION & TARGETING OF PROTESTORS AND ALL THOSE ENGAGED IN THE CHARLOTTE UPRISING
be careful what you wish for. when the police pull out the rest of the population will take care of the situation somewhat more efficiently.

Holy God, someone tell me this is their idea of a joke and they're not actually that delusional.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/court-r.../450911728

Keith Scott had a previous charge for punching his son and telling he and his wife that Scott would kill them with his illegally owned gun, another charge for stabbing his wife in the back (literally), and supposedly the gun he had when he was killed was stolen (and then bought by Scott).

That's on top of the prison sentence he did for shooting at and fleeing from police that we already knew about.

Quote: (09-27-2016 05:23 PM)Enigma Wrote:  

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/court-r.../450911728

Keith Scott had a previous charge for punching his son and telling he and his wife that Scott would kill them with his illegally owned gun, another charge for stabbing his wife in the back (literally), and supposedly the gun he had when he was killed was stolen (and then bought by Scott).

That's on top of the prison sentence he did for shooting at and fleeing from police that we already knew about.

Megyn Kelly is saying police have Keith guy's prints on the gun, not registered, the thief who stole it has admitted to selling it to him.

Quote: (09-27-2016 09:01 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

Megyn Kelly is saying police have Keith guy's prints on the gun, not registered, the thief who stole it has admitted to selling it to him.

Small quibble but its just something that grinds my gears, I hear it paraded by the media all too often that this or that person's gun wasn't "registered". Registration of firearms is not mandatory in NC except for Durham County. Moreover it is not mandatory in a majority of states in the US.

Quote: (09-26-2016 02:56 AM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

Quote: (09-26-2016 01:39 AM)infowarrior1 Wrote:  

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:51 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

Quote: (09-25-2016 02:24 PM)Thersites Wrote:  

^ In psychiatry, someone like Mr. Scott is group into Cluster B Personality Disorders, more specifically Antisocial Personality Disorders. They are pretty much sociopath with disregard of other people's right and rules in general. They only care about themselves. There is no treatment of a person with this personality disorder. Only option are jail and death for such a person.

Honestly speaking, death would be preferable, IKE above has inferred as much. Sociopaths are not nice people, they're horrible awful people who destroy everything the touch and bring suffering and pain in their wake. They are not cool or made for TV, they're not even human. If you have ever known a real sociopath (not in the way girls call their ex-bfs), a real stone cold sociopath, then you know the moment you realize they have no soul, no empathy, no normal human feelings. First you get terrified, like ice touches your spine, then fear is replaced by intense anger and a desire to destroy the sociopath. This reaction must be inborn and genetic. It's a kind of disgust like nothing else.

Europeans used to be a hell of a lot more violent just a few hundred years ago. This was solved by execution of violent criminals. After a few hundred years, so many sociopaths had been killed, the population as a whole became less violent. This is well documented.

Quote:Quote:

The war on murder – 12th to 17th centuries

Murder was normally a personal matter to be settled by the victim’s family, through vengeance or a cash settlement.

This situation began to change in the 12th century. One reason was that the State had become stronger. But there also had been an ideological change. The State no longer saw itself as an honest broker for violent disputes that did not challenge its existence. Jurists were now arguing that the king must punish the wicked to ensure that the good may live in peace. The Church itself was coming around to this view through what may be called a medieval synthesis of Christian morality:

[…] a reaction arose beginning in the 11th century against the previous system of monetary compensation. Henceforth, increasingly, it was felt that money could not be a sufficient compensation for such an infraction. The idea that the murder of a man is a crime too serious, an offence too manifest to the order of Creation, to be simply “compensated” by a sum of money was present from the early 11th century onward in the thinking of some bishops (Carbassse, 2011, p. 38)

And so began the war on murder. From the 12th to 17th centuries, capital punishment became steadily more prevalent. We see this in an increasing willingness to use it not only for murder but also for other crimes (rape, abortion, infanticide, lèse majesté, theft, counterfeiting, etc.). We also see this in the use of ‘exemplary’ punishment: drawing and quartering, breaking on the wheel, and burning. Beginning in the 13th and 14th centuries, we see cases of a murderer being buried alive in a casket placed underneath the victim’s casket (Carbasse, 2011, p. 53).

Then, after the 17th century, the war on murder began to go into reverse. It had been largely won, and public sympathy now shifted to the condemned man. In England, the homicide rate fell by over a hundred-fold between 1300 and 1900 (Eisner, 2001). Europeans were becoming kinder and gentler, and this pacification of social relations would make possible much of what we call modernity: the expansion of the market economy; a growing freedom to live among total strangers; the rise of the individual as an autonomous, self-maximizing being, and so on.

But this pacification also had a down side. We now take it for granted. If people act violently, to the point of committing murder, we assume there must be a very good reason. Otherwise, why would they have done it?

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com.au/2013/...ntler.html

And so we enter human biodiversity territory. Is violence an inherited trait? Sociopathy?

An experiment was done with silver foxes:





So if humans are animals then what we are seeing is male domestication demonstrated in history. Which is also reflected in this study when human civilization started to flourish:

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Although humans have been around for 200,000 years, they didn't develop the makings of modern society -- culture, art and advanced tools -- until about 50,000 years ago.

Could lower testosterone levels have helped make the difference? A study published in the journal Current Anthropology finds that human skulls changed shape at about that same point in time -- physical changes linked to declining testosterone levels. The researchers say that suggests lower levels of the male hormone could have helped bring about modern civilization.

"The modern human behaviors of technological innovation, making art and rapid cultural exchange probably came at the same time that we developed a more cooperative temperament," lead author Robert Cieri, a biology graduate student at the University of Utah, said in a press release.

The research is based on measurements of the skulls of more than 1,400 modern and ancient humans. Begun as a senior thesis at Duke University, Cieri's research compares the brow ridge, facial shape and interior volume of 13 human skulls order than 80,000 years old; 41 skulls from 10,000 to 38,000 years ago; and more than 1,000 20th century skulls. A reduction of the brow ridge and a shortening of the upper face became apparent over time.

The changes in the skull structures -- heavy brows being replaced with rounder heads -- are evidence of decreasing testosterone levels acting on the skeleton, Cieri says.

Similar changes have been seen in animals. In a study with Siberian foxes, animals that were less wary and less aggressive toward humans developed a more juvenile appearance and behavior.

Around 50,000 years ago, humans underwent a drastic change, producing tools out of bone and antler, making projectile weapons and showing command of fire. Cieri argues that living together and cooperating rewarded lower aggression, allowing for societies to develop.

"If prehistoric people began living closer together and passing down new technologies, they'd have to be tolerant of each other," he explained. "The key to our success is the ability to cooperate and get along and learn from one another."