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  1. Roman polygyny.Laura Betzig - forthcoming - Human Nature: A Critical Reader.
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    Eusociality in History.Laura Betzig - 2014 - Human Nature 25 (1):80-99.
    For more than 100,000 years, H. sapiens lived as foragers, in small family groups with low reproductive variance. A minority of men were able to father children by two or three women; and a majority of men and women were able to breed. But after the origin of farming around 10,000 years ago, reproductive variance increased. In civilizations which began in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, and then moved on to Greece and Rome, kings collected thousands of women, whose children (...)
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    Where are the bastards' daddies?Laura Betzig - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):284-285.
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    A little more mortar for a firm foundation.Laura Betzig - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):264-264.
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    People are animals.Laura Betzig - forthcoming - Human Nature: A Critical Reader.
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    The Point of Politics.Laura Betzig - 1994 - Analyse & Kritik 16 (1):20-37.
    Why do men and women compete? And what makes them compete more or less? An answer to the first question follows directly from Darwin. If Homo sapiens, like other species, is a product of natural selection, then we should have evolved to compete in order to reproduce. An answer to the second question follows from more recent versions of Darwinism. People, like other organisms, are likely to compete socially - to form dominance hierarchies - to the extent that it is (...)
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  7. Why a despot.Laura Betzig - forthcoming - Human Nature: A Critical Reader.
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    Where's the beef? It's less about cooperation, more about conflict.Laura Betzig - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):561-562.
    Individuals give for two reasons. One is to get a benefit back. The other is to avoid a cost. “Cooperation” theories stress mutual benefits. “Conflict” theories stress costs. Hunters may give up part of their hunt because they get favors back, or because the recipients are stronger than they are and the hunting isn't as good anywhere else.
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    When women win.Laura Betzig - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (2):217-217.
    In Homo sapiens and other species, promiscuity, risk-taking, and aggression are less matters of sex (having XX vs. XY) than gender (giving PI vs. resources and/or genes). Classic role reversals include: sea-horses, polyandrous birds, and a few heiresses in England and Rome. Unlike other females, but like many males, they are assertive, they take chances, and they are not chaste.
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    Review of Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. [REVIEW]Laura Betzig - 2017 - Human Nature 28 (3):361-363.
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