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摘要 Since Darwin, intergroup hostilities have figured

2009 · 已發表論文 · 更新 2026/08/30 下午12:48

摘要 Since Darwin, intergroup hostilities have figured prominently in explanations of the 演化 of human 社會 behavior. Yet whether ancestral humans were largely "peaceful" or "warlike" remains con…

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  • 日期:2009

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Since Darwin, intergroup hostilities have figured prominently in explanations of the 演化 of human 社會 behavior. Yet whether ancestral humans were largely "peaceful" or "warlike" remains controversial. I ask a more precise question: If more cooperative groups were more likely to prevail in conflicts with other groups, was the level of intergroup violence sufficient to influence the 演化 of human 社會 behavior? Using a model of the 演化ary impact of between-group competition and a new data set that combines archaeological evidence on causes of death during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene with ethnographic and historical reports on hunter-gatherer 族群s, I find that the estimated level of mortality in intergroup conflicts would have had substantial effects, allowing the proliferation of group-b

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