creators_name: Moore, Jim
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-09-06
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:43
metadata_visibility: show
title: Hominids, coalitions, and weapons; not vehicles
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-behav
subjects: bio-evo
subjects: bio-socio
subjects: evol-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: hominid, violence, cooperation, weapon, group selection
abstract: Pace Wilson & Sober, group selection has not won over biology. However, the combination of fission/fusion organization (favoring coalition formation and relatively complex tactical behavior) with weapons (which in conjunction with group and/or ambush attacks greatly reduce the costs to actors of lethal inter- and intragroup aggression) create circumstances which may well have favored group selection in hominid evolution.
date: 1994
date_type: published
publication: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
volume: 17
number: 4
pagerange: 632
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Moore, Jim  (1994) Hominids, coalitions, and weapons; not vehicles.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/173/1/WilSob.html

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