The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Volume 1 |
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... costs , for example : time and energy that he devotes to vanquishing rivals cannot be devoted to catching prey or attracting mates ( aggressive neglect ) . And then there is the fact that , however useful it is to have a rival out of ...
... costs , for example : time and energy that he devotes to vanquishing rivals cannot be devoted to catching prey or attracting mates ( aggressive neglect ) . And then there is the fact that , however useful it is to have a rival out of ...
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... costs ( such as serious injury ) so the animal must weigh up the relative costs and benefits of its action and choose an optimum level of aggression ( i.e. , maximize the net benefits ) . If the costs are too high and the benefits too ...
... costs ( such as serious injury ) so the animal must weigh up the relative costs and benefits of its action and choose an optimum level of aggression ( i.e. , maximize the net benefits ) . If the costs are too high and the benefits too ...
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... costs are low . Costs in this context do not , of course , refer to monetary currency , but are to be understood in terms of time and / or energy expenditure ( or limited time and / or energy budgets ) which could have been allocated to ...
... costs are low . Costs in this context do not , of course , refer to monetary currency , but are to be understood in terms of time and / or energy expenditure ( or limited time and / or energy budgets ) which could have been allocated to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Nonhuman Intergroup Agonistic Behavior and Warfare | 3 |
The Adaptive Rationale | 7 |
Copyright | |
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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