>The women can feed the children on their own, so the men fight over women not resources.
Notably the causality runs in both directions here - the fighting over women is what prevents the population from falling into a Malthusian trap.
The next time someone tells you that pre-agricultural populations only spent 10 hours a week on work and the rest on leisure or whatever, you should reply asking what percentage of those populations died do to homicide. The answer might be revealing.
Notably the causality runs in both directions here - the fighting over women is what prevents the population from falling into a Malthusian trap.
The next time someone tells you that pre-agricultural populations only spent 10 hours a week on work and the rest on leisure or whatever, you should reply asking what percentage of those populations died do to homicide. The answer might be revealing.