BIOL 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Beyond War
14 Dec 2017
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Warfare lect 24: religious beliefs, information theory failure to assess opponents. Hawk vs dove: if you think of yourself as strong or weak you"re more likely to escalate/de-escalate. Testosterone disrupts human collaboration by increasing egocentric choices: ______________: demographic expanding population (resources limiting, resource competition. d + e lead to conflict in most species biological but not hardwired, historical unpredictable. Assassination of franz ferdinand, the archduke of austria-hungary: initiated power _____ Drive discharge model: combative sports provide an outlet to innate or learned aggressivity. Expect societies with more group sports to be less prone to conflict with other societies. If society if warlike, they tend to engage in group sports (sports are not an outlet to relieve the society of aggression). Lends support to mediational hypothesis: pick up a gun and testosterone increases. Papua new guinea society: youths took charge of interclan warfare. Elders came in and were able to create peace, essentially overnight.
