An Evolutionary Look at Football Soccer Celebration

Football can be considered a symbolic struggle in which humans use behavioral mechanisms that evolved in hominid clans. Women, children and the elder are notably absent in most football violence. My observation of 50 groups celebrating 2014 World Cup results on the Costa Rican streets found that bot...

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Autor principal: Monge, Julián
Formato: Online
Idioma:eng
Publicado: Universidad de Costa Rica 2019
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40028
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spelling RBT400282023-07-11T17:33:32Z An Evolutionary Look at Football Soccer Celebration An Evolutionary Look at Football Soccer Celebration Monge, Julián sociobiology of football evolutionary psychology of football soccer sociobiology of football evolutionary psychology of football soccer Football can be considered a symbolic struggle in which humans use behavioral mechanisms that evolved in hominid clans. Women, children and the elder are notably absent in most football violence. My observation of 50 groups celebrating 2014 World Cup results on the Costa Rican streets found that both sexes and all age groups participated equally, probably because group participation on the streets was safe, with violence concentrated in stadiums and inside homes. Football can be considered a symbolic struggle in which humans use behavioral mechanisms that evolved in hominid clans. Women, children and the elder are notably absent in most football violence. My observation of 50 groups celebrating 2014 World Cup results on the Costa Rican streets found that both sexes and all age groups participated equally, probably because group participation on the streets was safe, with violence concentrated in stadiums and inside homes. Universidad de Costa Rica 2019-12-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40028 Revista de Biología Tropical; Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Animal Behavior; Darwin Revista de Biología Tropical; Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Comportamiento Animal; Darwin Revista Biología Tropical; Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Animal Behavior; Darwin 2215-2075 0034-7744 eng https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40028/40575
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