ABSTRACT
This chapter is about what happens to men. It happens to men because they are endlessly pushing. They are endlessly pushing because they are selected in contests for this single quality. When there is a scarcity of niche spaces, there is a fierce contest for them (Gustafson & Cooper, 1990).
Power in human societies is granted to leaders who promise to maintain the traditional niches or even to expand them. In this endeavor, two stratagems are open to leaders that might be called further changes in the niche: Technical ingenuity, which produces more goods and services, or trade. When these eventually fail to satisfy, as they are bound to in populations of unchanged breeding strategy, only a single stratagem remains, that of taking land from other peoples by force (Colinvaux, 1983, p. 4).
