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Armed forces: Intrasexual selection for upper limb length in Homo sapiens

2021-02-06

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<p>Over 150 years ago, Darwin (1871) argued that humans had evolved to inflict and resist damage in violent combat. Until now, however, no research in human fighting ability has examined the anatomical structures that specifically contribute to damage resistance and infliction. Numerous taxa, however, have evolved physiological outgrowths (i.e., appendages) -- biologically categorised as animal weaponry -- to incr...

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Literature Corpus work: 640a32f8-9533-5a8c-84d6-be885d3e000f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5ud6h

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