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The importance of physical strength to human males.
Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) - 1 Mar 2012
Sell Aaron, Hone Liana S E, Pound Nicholas
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Fighting ability, although recognized as fundamental to intrasexual competition in many nonhuman species, has received little attention as an explanatory variable in the social sciences. Multiple lines of evidence from archaeology, criminology, anthropology, physiology, and psychology suggest that fighting ability was a crucial aspect of intrasexual competition for ancestral human males, and this has contributed...
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