کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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94667 | 160318 | 2012 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
From an evolutionary perspective, victims are individuals who incur fitness costs as the result of the actions of external agents. The external agents that inflict the costs are often other humans. In the evolutionary past, there were recurrent contexts of conflict in the fitness interests of different individuals. Evidence suggests that many instances of the infliction of costs on conspecifics are the evolved products of adaptations that function to acquire and control fitness-enhancing resources and goals. We propose that an antagonistic, coevolutionary arms race that has churned through the deep time of human evolutionary history has produced adaptations to strategically exploit others and defenses to avoid the costs of victimization.
► There were evolutionarily recurrent contexts of conflict between individuals.
► Cost-infliction is often the result of adaptations to control resources.
► Arms races produced adaptations to exploit others and defenses against victimization.
Journal: Aggression and Violent Behavior - Volume 17, Issue 1, January–February 2012, Pages 59–71