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?
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
R. Brian Ferguson
(Professor of Anthropology)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
552 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-750675-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-750675-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780197506752 |
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