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Old 11-15-2005, 01:54 PM
Trantor Trantor is offline
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Default Re: What\'s a plausible evolutionary justification for . . .

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Revenge? Or more precisely, the desire for revenge?


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Your tribe, and so your associated gene pool, is more likely to continue if you make a stand and punish the other tribe that attacked you rather than do nothing and encourage them to finish your gene pool off?

A perhaps naive stab at one possible mechanism!
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