Anna Wallette
Biographic Data
| ID | 9677376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Wallette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallette |
| SIGNATURE | WALLETTE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are there fitness benefits to violence? The case of medieval Iceland
Males that behave violently to achieve social and reproductive objectives are a widespread phenomenon among mammals, as well as humans. Because this kind of behaviour can be socially very disruptive, its continued survival in human populations, in particular, remains a puzzle. We use historical data on the pedigrees of medieval Icelandic Vikings to test the hypothesis that males who killed had higher fitness than other males. Whereas most studies…
Family counts: Deciding when to murder among the Icelandic Vikings
In small scale societies, lethal attacks on another individual usually invite revenge by the victim's family. We might expect those who perpetrate such attacks to do so only when their own support network (mainly family) is larger than that of the potential victim so as to minimise the risk of retaliation. Using data from Icelandic family sagas, we show that this prediction holds whether we consider biological kin or affinal kin (in-laws): on ave…
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Family counts: Deciding when to murder among the Icelandic Vikings
In small scale societies, lethal attacks on another individual usually invite revenge by the victim's family. We might expect those who perpetrate such attacks to do so only when their own support network (mainly family) is larger than that of the potential victim so as to minimise the risk of retaliation. Using data from Icelandic family sagas, we show that this prediction holds whether we consider biological kin or affinal kin (in-laws): on ave…
Are there fitness benefits to violence? The case of medieval Iceland
Males that behave violently to achieve social and reproductive objectives are a widespread phenomenon among mammals, as well as humans. Because this kind of behaviour can be socially very disruptive, its continued survival in human populations, in particular, remains a puzzle. We use historical data on the pedigrees of medieval Icelandic Vikings to test the hypothesis that males who killed had higher fitness than other males. Whereas most studies…
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Biology (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 works) · Genealogy (1 works) · Genetics (1 works)