Statistical Evidence For An Ecological Explanation Of Warfare

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Ember ,M. (1982). Statistical evidence for an ecological explanation of warfare [comment on
’Land shortage and war in New Guinea’, by P. Sillitoe]. American Anthropologist, 84(3), 645–649.
Melvin Ember, an American writer at Hunter College, City University of New York wrote an article stating the statistical evidence for ecological explanation of warfare to the world. Sillitoe in the journal Ethnology suggested that ecological factors were not important to make the world understand warfare in the New Guinea. Sillitoe contradicted his own analysis that ecological factors were not important because his statistics among other worldwide collected information suggested that first significance evidence was in favor of an ecological explanation on the warfare. Sillitoe stated that high population de...