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IMAGE: Illustration of male members of the Bolivian Tsimané. In their study, the researchers describe which conflicts may arise between men in this small-scale society and who supports who in case...
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Credit: Daniel Redhead
Daniel Redhead, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Chris von Rueden, from the University of Richmond, published a new study that describes coalition formation among men in Tsimané Amerindians living in Amazonian Bolivia, over a period of eight years. In two Tsimané communities, the authors describe the inter-personal conflicts that tend to arise between men, and the individual attributes and existing relationships that predict the coalitional support men receive in the event of conflicts.