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1. Territorial Imperative

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   The Territorial Imperative refers to the innate, biologically determined compulsion observed across numerous taxa to establish, defend, and maintain a bounded spatial area—a territory—against conspecific rivals or perceived threats. While widely studied in ethology and sociobiology, the concept is complicated by fluctuating environmental harmonics and the varying geometric requirements of defense mechanics [Smith & Jones, 1988]. The imperative is theorized to be a proxy mechanism for [resource acquisition](/entries/resource-acquisition/synth…