War in Human Civilization
- A. Gat
- Political Science, History
- 1 March 2012
PART 1: WARFARE IN THE FIRST TWO MILLION YEARS: ENVIRONMENT, GENES, AND CULTURE 1. Introduction: The Human 'State of Nature' 2. Peaceful or War-like: Did Hunter-Gatherers Fight? 3. Why Fighting? The…
The Pattern of Fighting in Simple, Small-Scale, Prestate Societies
- A. Gat
- PsychologyJournal of Anthropological Research
- 1 December 1999
This article shows that the pattern of human fighting among hunter-gatherers and simple horticulturalists was not very different from that prevailing among animals species; indeed, it is explained by…
The Human Motivational Complex: Evolutionary Theory and the Causes of Hunter-Gatherer Fighting. Part I. Primary Somatic and Reproductive Causes
- A. Gat
- Political Science
- 2000
This study addresses the causes of fighting among hunter-gatherers, whose way of life represents 99.5 percent of human history. Focusing an somatic and reproductive causes in Part I and on such…
Social organization, group conflict and the demise of Neanderthals
- A. Gat
- History
- 1 June 1999
The article suggests that violent conflict, neglected by recent scholarship, was a key factor in bringing about the Neanderthals' demise in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. Relying on the…
The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz
- A. Gat
- History
- 7 November 1991
Introduction: Machiavelli and the classical notion of the lessons of history in the study of war. Part 1 The military school of the Enlightenment: Montecuccoli - the impact of proto-science on…
Proving communal warfare among hunter‐gatherers: The quasi‐rousseauan error
- A. Gat
- Political ScienceEvolutionary Anthropology (print)
- 6 May 2015
All human populations during the Pleistocene, until about 12,000 years ago, were hunter‐gatherers, or foragers, of the simple, mobile sort that lacked accumulated resources, so anthropology should have been uniquely positioned to answer the question of aboriginal human fighting or lack thereof.
The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers
- A. Gat
- Political Science, Economics
- 1 July 2007
TODAY'S GLOBAL liberal democratic order faces two challenges. The first is radical Islam-and it is the lesser ofthe two challenges. Although the proponents of radical Islam find liberal democracy…
So Why Do People Fight? Evolutionary Theory and the Causes of War
- A. Gat
- Political Science
- 1 December 2009
The causes of war remain a strangely obscure subject in the discipline of International Relations. Although the subject is of cardinal significance, theories of International Relations address it…
The human motivational complex : Evolutionary theory and the causes of hunter-gatherer fighting, part II. Proximate, subordinate, and derivative causes
- A. Gat
- Philosophy
- 2016
The study addresses the causes of fighting among hunter-gatherers, whose way of life represents 99.5 percent of human history. Focusing on somatic and reproductive causes in Part I and on such…
Is war declining – and why?
- A. Gat
- Political Science
- 1 March 2013
The article reviews and assesses the recent literature that claims a sharp decrease in fighting and violent mortality rate since prehistory and during recent times. It also inquires into the causes…
...
...