The Origin of War: The Evolution of a Male-coalitional Reproductive Strategy, Volume 1 |
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Except for the social insects (vide infra), most cases described in the literature,
however, concern spectacular forms of defense against predators or more or less
collective and concerted attacks of members of one species on one or more ...
Except for the social insects (vide infra), most cases described in the literature,
however, concern spectacular forms of defense against predators or more or less
collective and concerted attacks of members of one species on one or more ...
Page 191
Falling victim to a chimpanzee hunting group, on the other hand, more often than
not entails a slow, painful, and agonizing death, sometimes even being devoured
alive; (2) In catching prey, chimpanzees, quite unlike predators, show signs of ...
Falling victim to a chimpanzee hunting group, on the other hand, more often than
not entails a slow, painful, and agonizing death, sometimes even being devoured
alive; (2) In catching prey, chimpanzees, quite unlike predators, show signs of ...
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what is left over (often, very little) from such rare kills after the predator has
finished. Add to this intense competition with micro-organisms, insects, avians,
and mammalian carnivores and scavengers (not to mention the returning
predator or its ...
what is left over (often, very little) from such rare kills after the predator has
finished. Add to this intense competition with micro-organisms, insects, avians,
and mammalian carnivores and scavengers (not to mention the returning
predator or its ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Concept and Characteristics of War in Primitive Societies | 69 |
Nonhuman Intergroup Agonistic Behavior and Warfare | 143 |
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