L'asymétrie fonctionnelle hémisphérique et le comportement

Territorial behavior in a natural human group

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Territorial behavior in a natural human groupThe widespread incidence of territorial defense behavior in Homo sapiens is well established, but arguments as to whether humans are territorial by nature or by culture are still raging (Mazur, 1973;Tiger and Fox, 1971;Vine, 1973; Van den Berghe, 1974). Proponents of the biological interpretation of human territoriality point to the universality of the phenomenon in human societies.

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“…The more theoretically sophisticated treatments of spacing and territoriality, on the other hand, have been based almost exclusively on non-human data (Kummer, 1970;Vine, 1973;Wilson, 1975;Wynne-Edwards, 1962). Such human data as we have must be gleaned from ethnographic descriptions written by authors who did not think ethologically or ecologically and who, therefore, were not systematic in their data collection, nor indeed recognized the general import of the behavior they described.…”