In 1973, a Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés set out to test a hypothesis.
He had been struck by the connection between violence and sexuality in monkeys. “Most conflicts,” he noted, “are about sexual access to ovulating females.”
The anthropologist came up with the experiment after his flight was hijacked on the way home to Mexico City from a conference on the history of violence.
Amid life-and-death tension as the passengers feared they would never see their families again, he felt he was witnessing true emotions and reactions and “realized this was perfect conditions for experimenting on human behavior.”
The Mexican professor tried to recreate those fraught hijacking conditions on a boat drifting across the Atlantic. In this video, I discuss this "research study" and its unexpected outcomes....
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