War and Violence Flashcards
Aggression as an adaptation:
defense
increase status
same-sex rivals
deter rivals
pillaging
The Young male syndrome
male same-sex homicides > female same-sex homcides
- evidence for warfare being a male characteristic
women do not form same-sex groups to go to war
- evidence for warfare being a male characteristic
males perform cost benefit analysis of aggression
- evidence for warfare being a male characteristic:
warfare provides access to women
- evidence for warfare being a male characteristic
strength, fighting ability and bravery valued by men
warfare in Ecuadorian Amazon:
correlation between status and warriorship
- conditions for war:
gain in reproductive resources > loss of reproductive resources
2 conditions for war:
must believe will be victorious
- conditions for war:
individual risk must give rise to benefit
- conditions for war:
warriors unaware of who will survive and who will die
details of Bronze Age battle
3200 years ago
Tollense River
wood, flint bronze
- similarities between militarism and tribalism: members fight for….
each other, not the cause
- similarities between militarism and tribalism: members…
train , live, and fight together
- similarities between militarism and tribalism:
close relationships between membranes
units of New Zealand army have their own form of what dance…
haka
British casualties of the lost generation:
35.8%
which class of people made up most of the casualties of the battle of the somme?
infantry, specifically the officers
casualty rates of injured infantry:
86%
describe contraints to behaviour:
cultural, not biological
why are humans violent?
no innate termination signal to stop harming someone
advantage of outlawing theft, murder and rape:
allows for focus on surival within harsh environments
role of women in blood feuds:
keep shirt of the dead
speak of story to sons
wear black until revenge
effect of blood feud on habitants in bellona:
inhibited by 500 people, not 1000
how long was the blood feud between bellona and renell?
300 years
what started the blood feud between bellona and renell?
renellese man peed in water hole
death of a decoy pigeon caused a blood feud to span how much time?
> 150 years
increase in homicide rates in bellona during the blood feud:
62.2 % to 295.5
% of killing due to vegeance in blood feuds:
53.2%
% of killing due to theft or property destruction in blood feuds:
20.5%
% of killing due to humilating behaviour in blood feuds:
17.4%
% of killing due to other behaviours in blood feuds:
4.2%
% of killing due to unknown reasons in blood feuds:
4.7%
expanation for blood feud on bellona:
combination of factors relating to social structure
reasons not to kill in a blood feud:
people low status
not/ no enough suriviors to launch attack
killer not indentified
target are close kin
targets were notrious thieves
why did the blood feud continue?
killing beget killing
breakdown of cultural constraints induces:
violence
aggression can be adaptaive as well as
maaladaptive
