The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Volume 1 |
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... factors themselves produce the level of hostility within a society " ( Russell , 1972 ) . Russell further concluded that primitive warfare was primarily related to personality variables rather than to cultural variables since orthogonal ...
... factors themselves produce the level of hostility within a society " ( Russell , 1972 ) . Russell further concluded that primitive warfare was primarily related to personality variables rather than to cultural variables since orthogonal ...
Page 177
... factors limiting the reproductive success of males and females tend to be different , however , due to the strong asymmetry in parental investment . Consequently , males and females compete for different resources , and the competitive ...
... factors limiting the reproductive success of males and females tend to be different , however , due to the strong asymmetry in parental investment . Consequently , males and females compete for different resources , and the competitive ...
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... factors explain why war occurs . In the absence of a pressing scarcity of some essential material resource ( s ) , or when an existing scarcity can be addressed by alternatives less costly than war ( e.g. , intensifica- tion of ...
... factors explain why war occurs . In the absence of a pressing scarcity of some essential material resource ( s ) , or when an existing scarcity can be addressed by alternatives less costly than war ( e.g. , intensifica- tion of ...
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