کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5044867 1370637 2017 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Family counts: deciding when to murder among the Icelandic Vikings
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
شمارش خانواده: تصمیم گیری در مورد قتل در میان وایکینگهای ایسلندی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی

In small scale societies, lethal attacks on another individual usually invite revenge by the victim's family. We might expect those who perpetrate such attacks to do so only when their own support network (mainly family) is larger than that of the potential victim so as to minimise the risk of retaliation. Using data from Icelandic family sagas, we show that this prediction holds whether we consider biological kin or affinal kin (in-laws): on average, killers had twice as many relatives as their victims. These findings reinforce the importance of kin as a source of implicit protection even when they are not physically present. The results also support Hughes' (1988) claim that affines are biological kin because of the shared genetic interests they have in the offspring generation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Evolution and Human Behavior - Volume 38, Issue 2, March 2017, Pages 175-180
نویسندگان
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