• DOI:10.1038/nature19758
Corpus ID: 4454927

The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence

@article{Gmez2016ThePR,
  title={The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence},
  author={J. M. G{\'o}mez and Miguel Calvo Verd{\'u} and A. Gonz{\'a}lez-Meg{\'i}as and M. M{\'e}ndez},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2016},
  volume={538},
  pages={233-237}
}

J. M. Gómez, Miguel Calvo Verdú, +1 author M. Méndez

Published 2016

Biology, Medicine

Nature

The psychological, sociological and evolutionary roots of conspecific violence in humans are still debated, despite attracting the attention of intellectuals for over two millennia. Here we propose a conceptual approach towards understanding these roots based on the assumption that aggression in mammals, including humans, has a significant phylogenetic component. By compiling sources of mortality from a comprehensive sample of mammals, we assessed the percentage of deaths due to conspecifics… CONTINUE READING

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