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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022

Evolution of warfare by resource raiding favours polymorphism in belligerence and bravery.

Charles Mullon, Laurent Lehmann

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  2. Evolution of warfare by resource raiding favours polymorphism in belligerence and bravery.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  3. Leaders of war: modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  4. Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  5. Correlates of individual participation in boundary patrols by male chimpanzees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  6. Collective self-assessment in banded mongoose intergroup contests.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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Charles MullonDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9875-4227
Laurent LehmannDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From protists to primates, intergroup aggression and warfare over resources have been observed in several taxa whose populations typically consist of groups connected by limited genetic mixing. Here, we model the coevolution between four traits relevant to this setting: (i) investment into common-pool resource production within groups (helping); (ii) proclivity to raid other groups to appropriate their resources (belligerence); and investments into (iii) defense and (iv) offense of group contests (defensive and offensive bravery). We show that when traits coevolve, the population often experiences disruptive selection favouring two morphs: 'Hawks', who express high levels of both belligerence and offensive bravery; and 'Doves', who express neither. This social polymorphism involves further among-traits associations when the fitness costs of helping and bravery interact. In particular, if helping is antagonistic with both forms of bravery, coevolution leads to the coexistence of individuals that either: (i) do not participate into common-pool resource production but only in its defense and appropriation (Scrounger Hawks) or (ii) only invest into common pool resource production (Producer Doves). Provided groups are not randomly mixed, these findings are robust to several modelling assumptions. This suggests that inter-group aggression is a potent mechanism in favouring within-group social diversity and behavioural syndromes. This article is part of the theme issue 'Intergroup conflict across taxa'.

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CourageAggressionAnimalsPhenotypePolymorphism, GeneticWarfarekin selectionpolymorphismtrait associationswarfare

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PMID35369745
PMCPMC8977657

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