The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Volume 1 |
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... attack or raid with a brief period of fighting , and then withdrawal is the most common stratagem ( considerably varying in bloodiness and destructiveness ) . Pitched battles on the field are relatively uncommon and far less bloody ...
... attack or raid with a brief period of fighting , and then withdrawal is the most common stratagem ( considerably varying in bloodiness and destructiveness ) . Pitched battles on the field are relatively uncommon and far less bloody ...
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... attack and / or fear is that they provide a discrepancy of some magnitude from the animal's expectation model of its environment ( the neuronal representation or template of the stable properties , spatial as well as temporal , of its ...
... attack and / or fear is that they provide a discrepancy of some magnitude from the animal's expectation model of its environment ( the neuronal representation or template of the stable properties , spatial as well as temporal , of its ...
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... ( ATTACK TENDENCY ) RAGE BIFURCATION SET AVOIDANCE -PETAL BALANCE → CENTRIFUGAL / EXPLORATION RETREAT DANGER ( DIS ) PLAY BEHAVIOUR POCKET APPROACH ATTACK ATTACKING CATASTROPHE B ATTACK PROVOCATION FEAR / ANGER BALANCE Fig . 5.2 : The ...
... ( ATTACK TENDENCY ) RAGE BIFURCATION SET AVOIDANCE -PETAL BALANCE → CENTRIFUGAL / EXPLORATION RETREAT DANGER ( DIS ) PLAY BEHAVIOUR POCKET APPROACH ATTACK ATTACKING CATASTROPHE B ATTACK PROVOCATION FEAR / ANGER BALANCE Fig . 5.2 : The ...
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