This paper presents and discusses codes for the Murdock/White (1969) sample societies. The codes measure warfare frequencies (internal, external, and overall);
land and nonland resources taken during war; individual and socially organized
aggression (homicide, assault, theft, trespass, suicide); and unpredictable and pre dictable resource problems
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