Biologia versus kultura. Przegląd bioewolucyjnych i kulturowych teorii wojny w przedpaństwowych społecznościach pradziejowych

• Authors: Rafał Skrzyniecki , Jan Romaniszyn
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper’s main aim is to outline the problem of polarisation of contemporary discussion concerning the concept of origins of warfare. Basically, two leading trends can be distinguished: the first one accentuates the biological basis of human violence and places its origins deep into our evolutionary past. The second one recognises conflict as a relatively late and typically cultural phenomenon in human prehistory, which cannot be interpreted in terms of natural selection and evolution. The existence of a sharp ideological border between ‘hawks’ and ‘doves’ enables a comparison of both perspectives and facilitates the analysis of internal dynamics of their development.

Keywords

PL

warfare; origins; Killer Ape Theory; cultural materialism; sociobiology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 437-458

Dates

published

2016-12-15

Contributors

author

Rafał Skrzyniecki

• Instytut Archeologii, Wydział Historyczny, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza ul. Umultowska 89D, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

author

Jan Romaniszyn

• Instytut Archeologii, Wydział Historyczny, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza ul. Umultowska 89D, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/fpp.2016.21.17