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RT @Evolving_Moloch: "...a Western Dani man also had to be “aggressive in order to be polygynous”: he had “to keep his wives from being abd…
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RT @Evolving_Moloch: "This was Tibenuk’s achievement. When he was young and at his physical peak, he demonstrated outstanding capability in…
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Social Signaling and the Warrior-Big-Man among the Western Dani https://t.co/AQtJc6hJH6 HumNat
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RT @Evolving_Moloch: "...a Western Dani man also had to be “aggressive in order to be polygynous”: he had “to keep his wives from being abd…
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RT @Evolving_Moloch: "...a Western Dani man also had to be “aggressive in order to be polygynous”: he had “to keep his wives from being abd…
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RT @Evolving_Moloch: "This was Tibenuk’s achievement. When he was young and at his physical peak, he demonstrated outstanding capability in…
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"This was Tibenuk’s achievement. When he was young and at his physical peak, he demonstrated outstanding capability in war. War is a young man’s game, however, and as his physical capacities waned, he shifted to politics, an older man’s game..." https://t.
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"...a Western Dani man also had to be “aggressive in order to be polygynous”: he had “to keep his wives from being abducted by other men but [he might] often use abduction himself as a technique for obtaining another wife”" https://t.co/S9EuPnkY6Q https:
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Roscoe et al. on signaling and leadership in W. Dani. "Men therefore had to demonstrate strength on both the battlefield and the ceremonial ground if they were to become big-men" https://t.co/1RbIJjjof4