Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico by Danny Zborover and Peter C. Kroefges, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015. 428 pp
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 120, Heft 2, S. 365-366
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 120, Heft 2, S. 365-366
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Desacatos: revista de antropología social, Heft 27
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In: Journal of colonialism & colonial history, Band 6, Heft 2
ISSN: 1532-5768
In: Current anthropology, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 886-888
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In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 49-55
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 186-202
ISSN: 1471-5457
This paper uses a Darwinian perspective to examine the nuclear arms race in the context of "arms races" in evolution and throughout human history. The rise of human "arms races," or escalatory intergroup competition, is traced to a variety of environmental triggers initiated during the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene. These triggers removed extraspecific environmental constraints to escalatory intergroup competition in some areas of the world, making it reproductively advantageous for individuals to live in increasingly larger and more competitive groups. This process is linked to the development of social complexity and the intensification of intergroup competition, warfare, and arms production, culminating in the nuclear arms race. Historically, escalatory intergroup competition has been reproductively advantageous to elites because it enables them to acquire a disproportionately large share of resources. It is argued that the continuation of the nuclear arms race past a level of mutual assured destruction results from the benefits it provides to elites as well as a variety of evolved behavioral mechanisms that encourage in-group affiliations, out-group hostilities, and obedience to authority.
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 49
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Current anthropology, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 33-47
ISSN: 1537-5382
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In: Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas
In: Current anthropology, Band 56, Heft 6, S. 819-847
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Current anthropology, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 383-391
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 186, 203
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Current anthropology, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 47-86
ISSN: 1537-5382