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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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Main Authors: Palmstierna, Markel, Frangou, Anna, Wallette, Anna, Dunbar, Robin
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: 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