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Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill?

Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill?

          
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The question of whether men are predisposed to war runs hot in contemporary scholarship and online discussion. Within this debate, chimpanzee behavior is often cited to explain humans' propensity for violence; the claim is that male chimpanzees kill outsiders because they are evolutionarily inclined, suggesting to some that people are too. The longstanding critique that killing is instead due to human disturbance has been pronounced dead and buried. In Chimpanzees, War, and History, R. Brian Ferguson challenges this consensus. By historically contextualizing every reported chimpanzee killing, Ferguson offers and empirically substantiates two hypotheses. Primarily, he provides detailed demonstration of the connection between human impact and intergroup killing of adult chimpanzees. Secondarily, he argues that killings within social groups reflect status conflicts, display violence against defenseless individuals, and payback killings of fallen status bullies. Ferguson also explains broad chimpanzee-bonobo differences in violence through constructed and transmitted social organizations consistent with new perspectives in evolutionary theory. He deconstructs efforts to illuminate human warfare via chimpanzee analogy, and provides an alternative anthropological theory grounded in Pan-human contrasts that is applicable to different types of warfare. Bringing readers on a journey through theoretical struggle and clashing ideas about chimpanzees, bonobos, and evolution, Ferguson opens new ground on the age-old question--are men born to kill?

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Controversies Chapter 1: From Nice to Brutal Chapter 2: The Second Generation Chapter 3: Theoretical Alternatives Part II: Gombe Chapter 4: From Peace to "War" Chapter 5: Contextualizing Violence Chapter 6: Explaining the War and Its Aftermath Chapter 7: The Postwar Era Chapter 8: Interpreting Gombe Violence Part III: Mahale Chapter 9: Mahale: What Happened to K Group? Chapter 10: Mahale History Part IV: Kibale Chapter 11: Kibale Chapter 12: Ngogo Territorial Conflict Chapter 13: Scale and Geopolitics at Ngogo Chapter 14: The Ngogo Expansion, RCH + HIH Chapter 15: Kanyawara Part V: Budongo Chapter 16: Budongo, Early Research Chapter 17: Sonso Part VI: Eleven Smaller Cases Chapter 18: Eastern Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii Chapter 19: Central Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes troglodytes Chapter 20: Western Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus Part VII: Tai Chapter 21: Tai and Its Afflictions Chapter 22: Sociality and Intergroup Relations Chapter 23: Killings and Explanations Part VIII: Bonobos Chapter 24: Pan paniscus Chapter 25: Social Organization and Why Male Bonobos Are Less Violent Chapter 26: Evolutionary Scenarios and Speculations Part IX: Adaptive Strategies, Human Impact, and Deadly Violence: Theory and Evidence Chapter 27: Killing Infants Chapter 28: The Case for Evolved Adaptations, by the Evidence Chapter 29: Human Impact, Critiqued and Documented Part X: Human War Chapter 30: The Demonic Perspective Meets Human Warfare Chapter 31: Toward a General Theory of War Chapter 32: Applications Tables References Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780197506752
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 162 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 971 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197506755
  • Publisher Date: 03 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Are Men Born to Kill?
  • Width: 237 mm


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