Watching that battle, my mind went immediately to Dodge Ball. Play that simulates perhaps our most natural type of group fighting.

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thaumasiotes 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Our most natural type of group fighting is a bunch of guys raiding a rival settlement while everyone is asleep and killing them in their beds.

Fighting always works better when only your side is doing it.

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estearum an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Most intra-species fighting is not designed to end in murder, so this seems like a pretty bold claim. Got any research to back it up?

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hermitcrab an hour ago | parent [-]

>Most intra-species fighting is not designed to end in murder

That depends a lot on scarcity. If you are a male and you only get one chance at mating, you will probably fight to the death. If you will get plenty of other chances, then you might accept the results of a ritualised non-lethal combat (e.g. giraffes headbutting each other, rather than kicking). Its just evolution + game theory.

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amunozo 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

Is this backed by some anthropological real world examples, or are you just extrapolating theories?

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		I read it in an article that was talking about the application of game theory to biology/evolution and I believe it is well supported by evidence. But I can't remember the source.
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Der_Einzige 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You watched Apocalypto recently