Aggression - evolutionary explanation for group display

Question 1

4 reasons

Answer 1

secure access to scarce resources, the aggressors force their own genes onto a vanquished group, acquiring status and access to women, reducing overpopulation

Question 2

Diamond

Answer 2

looked at reasons for war - by 1991, 63% of countries who had been involved in wars were involved due to land conflicts

Question 3

McKnight and Sutton

Answer 3

Vietnam war, guerrilla tactics that were used extensively in villages so that on multiple occasions American soldiers were mistakenly ordered to attack innocent peasants

Question 4

Bullock

Answer 4

one of the first actions they took under such circumstances, after killing, was the rape of young women which created a generation of Amerasians in Vietnam

Question 5

Chagnon

Answer 5

Yanomamo tribe - successful warriors had more wives and children than those who were less successful - most young men who had killed were married

Question 6

Example of reducing overpopulation

Answer 6

Nazi-germany

Question 7

Diamond

Answer 7

gaining land through war is immediately followed by the partial or total killing of the original inhabitants of the land