War and Violence

Question 1

Aggression as an adaptation:

Answer 1

defense
increase status
same-sex rivals
deter rivals
pillaging

Question 2

The Young male syndrome

Answer 2

male same-sex homicides > female same-sex homcides

Question 3

1. evidence for warfare being a male characteristic

Answer 3

women do not form same-sex groups to go to war

Question 4

2. evidence for warfare being a male characteristic

Answer 4

males perform cost benefit analysis of aggression

Question 5

3. evidence for warfare being a male characteristic:

Answer 5

warfare provides access to women

Question 6

4. evidence for warfare being a male characteristic

Answer 6

strength, fighting ability and bravery valued by men

Question 7

warfare in Ecuadorian Amazon:

Answer 7

correlation between status and warriorship

Question 8

1. conditions for war:

Answer 8

gain in reproductive resources > loss of reproductive resources

Question 9

2 conditions for war:

Answer 9

must believe will be victorious

Question 10

3. conditions for war:

Answer 10

individual risk must give rise to benefit

Question 11

4. conditions for war:

Answer 11

warriors unaware of who will survive and who will die

Question 12

details of Bronze Age battle

Answer 12

3200 years ago
Tollense River
wood, flint bronze

Question 13

2. similarities between militarism and tribalism: members fight for….

Answer 13

each other, not the cause

Question 14

1. similarities between militarism and tribalism: members…

Answer 14

train , live, and fight together

Question 15

3. similarities between militarism and tribalism:

Answer 15

close relationships between membranes

Question 16

units of New Zealand army have their own form of what dance…

Answer 16

haka

Question 17

British casualties of the lost generation:

Answer 17

35.8%

Question 18

which class of people made up most of the casualties of the battle of the somme?

Answer 18

infantry, specifically the officers

Question 19

casualty rates of injured infantry:

Answer 19

86%

Question 20

describe contraints to behaviour:

Answer 20

cultural, not biological

Question 21

why are humans violent?

Answer 21

no innate termination signal to stop harming someone

Question 22

advantage of outlawing theft, murder and rape:

Answer 22

allows for focus on surival within harsh environments

Question 23

role of women in blood feuds:

Answer 23

keep shirt of the dead
speak of story to sons
wear black until revenge

Question 24

effect of blood feud on habitants in bellona:

Answer 24

inhibited by 500 people, not 1000

Question 25

how long was the blood feud between bellona and renell?

Answer 25

300 years

Question 26

what started the blood feud between bellona and renell?

Answer 26

renellese man peed in water hole

Question 27

death of a decoy pigeon caused a blood feud to span how much time?

Answer 27

> 150 years

Question 28

increase in homicide rates in bellona during the blood feud:

Answer 28

62.2 % to 295.5

Question 29

% of killing due to vegeance in blood feuds:

Answer 29

53.2%

Question 30

% of killing due to theft or property destruction in blood feuds:

Answer 30

20.5%

Question 31

% of killing due to humilating behaviour in blood feuds:

Answer 31

17.4%

Question 32

% of killing due to other behaviours in blood feuds:

Answer 32

4.2%

Question 33

% of killing due to unknown reasons in blood feuds:

Answer 33

4.7%

Question 34

expanation for blood feud on bellona:

Answer 34

combination of factors relating to social structure

Question 35

reasons not to kill in a blood feud:

Answer 35

people low status not/ no enough suriviors to launch attack killer not indentified target are close kin targets were notrious thieves

Question 36

why did the blood feud continue?

Answer 36

killing beget killing

Question 37

breakdown of cultural constraints induces:

Answer 37

violence

Question 38

aggression can be adaptaive as well as

Answer 38

maaladaptive