Why war? Motivations for fighting in the human state of nature

Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 197-220

  Gat, Azar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 78751471714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02725-3_9     Document Type: Chapter

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