The evolution of lethal intergroup violence.
Recent findings and analyses in evolutionary biology, archaeology, and ethnology provide a favorable conjuncture for examining the evolution of lethal intergroup violence among hominids during the 2.9-million-year Paleolithic time span. Here, I seek to identify and investigate the main turning points in this evolutionary trajectory and to delineate the periodization that follows from this inquiry.
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Raymond C
RC
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 550 East University Avenue, 101 West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092, USA. rck@umich.edu
D000374:Aggression; D000818:Animals; D001106:Archaeology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005007:Ethnology; D015186:Hominidae / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence