The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence

Nature

Volumn 538, Issue 7624, 2016, Pages 233-237

  Gómez, José María ^a,b   Verdú, Miguel ^c   González Megías, Adela ^b   Méndez, Marcos ^d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Atmosphere and Ocean Laboratory   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANCESTRY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANCESTRY GROUP; APE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LETHAL VIOLENCE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; POLITICS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; VIOLENCE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; HISTORY; HOMICIDE; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DEATH; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; POLITICS; PRIMATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84991726414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature19758     Document Type: Article

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