Modern Man And His Forerunners a Short Study of the Human Species Living And Ex
Modern Man And His Forerunners a Short Study of the Human Species Living And Ex
H G F Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell
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But when the growing severity of the conditions of life required the maintenance of large communities with many adult males, it became necessary to prevent any dispute, which might arise, from being settled in a way which would destroy or impair the general efficiency of either of the disputants. A warrior, who quarrels with another warrior of the tribe, knows that if he kills or cripples him he will be without his help in the next conflict with the neighbouring tribe ; and if in the exasperati...on of the moment he is liable to forget this, the other members of the tribe for their common good restrain him. Duels between animals of the same species, particularly gregarious animals of the same herd, very rarely end fatally. It might be to the advantage of an individual to kill all his rivals, but by so doing he would weaken the herd and end by perishing with it. Consequently we find natural selec- tion has made the weapons of male animals which fight with one another almost harmless against each other.
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