ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
The evolution of altruism through war is highly sensitive to population structure and to civilian and fighter mortality.
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Abstract
The importance of warfare in the evolution of human social behavior remains highly debated. One hypothesis is that intense warfare between groups favored altruism within groups, a hypothesis given some support by computational modeling and, in particular, the work of Choi and Bowles [J.-K. Choi, S. Bowles,
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