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Family counts: deciding when to murder among the Icelandic Vikings
In small scale societies, lethal attacks on another individual usually invite revenge by the victim's family. We might expect those who perpetrate such attacks to do so only when their own support network (mainly family) is larger than that of the potential victim so as to minimise the risk of...
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Format: | Online Article Text |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier Science
2017
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29333057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.09.001 |