When Violence Pays: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Aggressive Behavior in Animals and Humans
An optimization analysis of human behavior from a comparative perspective can improve our understanding of the adaptiveness of human nature. Intra-specific competition for resources provides the main selective pressure for the evolution of violent aggression toward conspecifics, and variation in the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2013-07-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491301100313 |