The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Volume 1 |
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... Africa ( Strabo , Seneca , Pliny the Elder , Claudius Ptolemeus , Hanno , Kosmas Indikopleustes ) , but in general the more reliable information stems from Arab sources . Northern Africa was to experience a long and dramatic sequence of ...
... Africa ( Strabo , Seneca , Pliny the Elder , Claudius Ptolemeus , Hanno , Kosmas Indikopleustes ) , but in general the more reliable information stems from Arab sources . Northern Africa was to experience a long and dramatic sequence of ...
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... Africa largely remained terra incognita until far into the 19th century . In the meantime , reports from explorers , ethnographers and missionaries about African tribal warfare had been accumulating to such an extent that the African ...
... Africa largely remained terra incognita until far into the 19th century . In the meantime , reports from explorers , ethnographers and missionaries about African tribal warfare had been accumulating to such an extent that the African ...
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... Africa east of the Great Rift ( Wood , 1992 ; Coppens , 1994 ; See Ch . 8 ) . Archaic Homo sapiens appeared on the scene by about 400,000 years ago ; and our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens has been in existence for a mere 35 to 50,000 ...
... Africa east of the Great Rift ( Wood , 1992 ; Coppens , 1994 ; See Ch . 8 ) . Archaic Homo sapiens appeared on the scene by about 400,000 years ago ; and our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens has been in existence for a mere 35 to 50,000 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Nonhuman Intergroup Agonistic Behavior and Warfare | 3 |
The Adaptive Rationale | 7 |
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adaptive agonistic behavior animals attack battle belligerence benefits biological cannibalism causes Chagnon chimpanzees civilization coalitions combat competition complex concept conspecifics contest cooperation correlation costs cultural evolution Darwin defense Dennen E.O. Wilson ecological economic enemy escalation evidence evolutionary evolved existence explain females feud fighting function genes genetic group selection hawk hominid hostility human hunter-gatherers hunting hypothesis inclusive fitness increase individual injury instinct interactions intergroup aggression intergroup conflict involved J.L. Brown killing kin selection kinship less lethal males mates matrilocal Maynard Smith military motives natural selection occur organization Otterbein patterns peace polygyny population predators primate primitive societies primitive warfare Q.Wright races raiding reproductive success result revenge ritual sapiens sexual selection social Social Darwinism sociobiology sociocultural evolution species strategy struggle survival tactics territorial theory Tooby tribal tribes Turney-High variables violence warlike warriors wars weapons women Yanomamö