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Page 113
Whoever might have doubted such a view — and some anthropologists, such as
Lee & DeVore (1968), Service (1966), Steward (1968), Turnbull (1968) indeed
defended the view that hunter-gatherers were relatively peaceful — was once ...
Whoever might have doubted such a view — and some anthropologists, such as
Lee & DeVore (1968), Service (1966), Steward (1968), Turnbull (1968) indeed
defended the view that hunter-gatherers were relatively peaceful — was once ...
Page 114
Ember included the following caveat: "[M]uch of the interest in the hunter-gatherer
way of life appears to be associated with the belief that typical characteristics of
recent hunter-gatherers were typical also in the Paleolithic. But even if we ...
Ember included the following caveat: "[M]uch of the interest in the hunter-gatherer
way of life appears to be associated with the belief that typical characteristics of
recent hunter-gatherers were typical also in the Paleolithic. But even if we ...
Page 360
The transition from the nomadic hunting way of life to the sedentary one of
farmers and industrialists made war possible ... of the facts that life expectancy of
agriculturalists actually decreases in comparison with hunter-gatherers (Cohen,
1977, ...
The transition from the nomadic hunting way of life to the sedentary one of
farmers and industrialists made war possible ... of the facts that life expectancy of
agriculturalists actually decreases in comparison with hunter-gatherers (Cohen,
1977, ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Concept and Characteristics of War in Primitive Societies | 69 |
Nonhuman Intergroup Agonistic Behavior and Warfare | 143 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Volume 1 The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, J. van der Dennen |
| Author | J. van der Dennen |
| Publisher | Origin Press, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 863 pages |
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