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Distribution of male intergroup coalitional play fighting (CPF) across forager societies
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Our findings show that male CPF between different polities is common across a diverse range of forager societies, and that it exhibits a distinctive age profile. This suggests that CPF is a statistical universal in humans, and supports the hypothesis that CPF is an evolved play behavior that develops skills related to lethal raiding.
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This page is a summary of: War games: Intergroup coalitional play fighting as a means of comparative coalition formidability assessment., Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000251.
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