Intra-Species Act of Violence

An Intra-Species Act of Violence is an act of violence between members of the same species.

• AKA: Conspecific Violence.
• Example(s):
  • Conspecific Human Violence.
• See: Meerkat.

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References

2016

• (Gómez et al., 2016) ⇒ José María Gómez, Miguel Verdú, Adela González-Megías, and Marcos Méndez. (2016). “The Phylogenetic Roots of Human Lethal Violence.” In: Nature, advance online publication. doi:10.1038/nature19758
  • QUOTE: 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 and, using phylogenetic comparative tools, predicted this value for humans.

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