NBB 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Homicide, Headhunting
9 Dec 2016
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Generally involves threats/ intimidation before physical attack. S: can be a consequence of evolution or stress because evolution is a byproduct of stress and a need to alleviate it, generally it is adaptive to avoid fights by showing who is stronger without actually attacking. In chimps it generally includes group ambushes on smaller groups and individuals and killing them. Men who have committed homicide have higher reproductive success than those who have not. Primitive warfare was an major source of fatality (used to be thought of as mostly non-lethal and ritualized) Can be hard to tell apart ancient weapons and tools (cid:862)the i(cid:272)e(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863) was killed (cid:271)y (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g shot i(cid:374) the (cid:271)a(cid:272)k with a(cid:374) arrow (cid:374)ear austria. Battle, feuding and raiding may grade into each other in a repetitive cycle of killing and revenge: ritualize killing. Headhunting= a ritual killing that acts as a killing sacrifice that removes contaminating burdens from individuals involved.
