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Warfare and the Evolution of the State: A Reconsideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David Webster
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Abstract

Warfare is seen as an adaptive ecological choice under conditions of population growth and resource limitation. Its major significance in the formation of the state lay in its ability to negate evolutionary constraints inherent in ranked societies. The evolutionary significance of warfare is discussed in terms of processes of cultural change which are largely internal.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 464 - 470
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1975

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