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(Evolutionary) Theories of warfare in preindustrial (foraging) societies
1Department of Legal Theory, Section Political Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. j.m.g.van.der.dennen@rechten.rug.nl
Neuro Endocrinology Letters
|December 24, 2002
Abstract:
I present an inventory of theories of war causation (and on the origin of war) in preindustrial (traditional, foraging, 'primitive', hunter-gatherer, band- and tribe-level) societies, with emphasis on the roles of natural selection, sexual selection and kin selection. Also the school of sociocultural evolution is briefly discussed.