Citation

Kelly RC. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2005; 102(43): 15294-11529.

Affiliation

Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 550 East University Avenue, 101 West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, National Academy of Sciences)

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0505955102

PMID

16129826

PMCID

PMC1266108

Abstract

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected on April 20, 2004. Recent findings and analyses in evolutionary biology, archaeology, and ethnology provide a favorable conjuncture for examining the evolution of lethal intergroup violence among hominids during the 2.9-million-year Paleolithic time span. Here, I seek to identify and investigate the main turning points in this evolutionary trajectory and to delineate the periodization that follows from this inquiry.