Who won?

Is competition part of human nature? Is agression?
Are they connected? Does basic, primitive
competition for food or for mates from our ape
background carry over through thousands of years
of evolution and supposed sophistication? Is
competition built into the species and as viable
now as in the ancient past? Does competition
naturally extend into other areas? Or has
competition today become contrived as a
substitute for the basic food and mating urges?

Are competitive sports an extension of our inner
need to vie against others? Does attendance at
a team competition or even watching games on television
fill some primal instinct? Our team wins then we
win? Less stressfull than the ancient days of
clubbing a foe with an animal bone. Just cheer
and jump up and down in the living room.

Competition now exists in many areas: for
leadership and power within a group, for
accumulation of wealth, for domination and
control of others, for ego gratification, and...
for mates. Some economic systems are based on degrees
of competition believing that products created by
competition must be better products. Competition by
nations in business or for territory often lead to
disputes, sometimes to conflict resulting in war.
Historically wars are the ultimate form of competition
where losers die.

Do alpha male humans naturally compete against other
alpha males because it's in their ape heritage? Same
for alpha females. Syblings might compete their
entire childhoods for parental approval. Is it so
ingrained in human makeup that competition can not
be recognized and perhaps adjusted in some way?

Can competition be refined or altered into some other
way of doing things, or is the ape in us too dominant
to allow such a deviation? Must we continue to compete
for the biggest banana? Will competition always be a
part of the human makeup?