If you mean does it make sense biologically or evolutionarily, it certainly could. If you mean does it make sense that society should accept behavior that is contrary or destructive to society members simply because it may be advantageous to an individual, of course the answer is, no. The phrasing, like peoples reactions to many human behavioral theories, is imprecise and often suggests a vested perspective that will be a barrier to any explanation whether it makes sense in the first instance, or not.
Certainly bigotry for example, is natural – it is ubiquitous. That does not make it any more acceptable than pneumonia, another natural and ubiquitous condition. And certainly, the incidence of bigotry can be affected by the environment.
The central appreciation is that if we recognize that bigotry fundamentally originates by a specific non-environmental process, then we are more likely to develop systems to affirmatively affect that behavioral outcome, ... more.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.