Lethal violence deep in the human lineage

Mark Pagel ()
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Mark Pagel: Mark Pagel is in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6UR, UK.

Nature, 2016, vol. 538, issue 7624, 180-181

Abstract: Researchers estimate that the incidence of human lethal violence at the time of the origin of our species was about six times higher than for the average mammal, but about as violent as expected, given our great-ape ancestry. See Letter p.233

Date: 2016
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