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An artice that can have some interest - The origin of war: the evolution of a male-coalitional reproductive strategy.

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"There’s also the question of what kind of murder rate the forager societies had, and here we must keep in mind the distinction between killing outsiders, and killing other members of the tribe."

A problem with this approach is that sometimes is not much clear what counts as an "outsider" or a "member of the tribe" - many tribal societies (both foragers and farmers) have an hierarchy of groups (family, clan, village, tribe, tribal confederacy...), not a definite distinction between "we" and "them".

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