Table of Contents Foreword Frans B. M. de Waal Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1 War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Challenge of Scientific Objectivity Douglas P. Fry Section I: Ecological and Evolutionary Models 2 Evolution and Peace: A Janus Connection David P. Barash 3 Conflict and Restraint in Animal Species: Implications for War and Peace Hanna Kokko 4 An Ethological Perspective on War and Peace Peter Verbeek 5 Cooperation, Conflict, and Niche Construction in the genus Homo AgustĂn Fuentes Section II: Lessons from Prehistory: War and Peace in the Past 6 Why the Legend of the Killer Ape Never Dies: The Enduring Power of Cultural Beliefs to Distort Our View of Human Nature Robert W. Sussman 7 Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality R. Brian Ferguson 8 Trends in Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America David H. Dye 9 From the Peaceful to the Warlike: Ethnographic and Archaeological Insights into Hunter-Gatherer Warfare and Homicide Robert Kelly 10 The Prehistory of Warfare: Misled by Ethnography Jonathan Haas & Matthew Piscitelli 11 The Prehistory of War and Peace in Europe and the Near East R. Brian Ferguson Section III: Nomadic Foragers: Insights about Human Nature 12 Peaceful Foragers: The Significance of the Batek and Moriori for the Question of Innate Human Violence Kirk Endicott 13 Social Control and Conflict Management among Australian Aboriginal Desert People Before and After the Advent of Alcohol Robert Tonkinson 14 Aggression and Conflict Resolution among the Nomadic Hadza of Tanzania as Compared with their Pastoralist Neighbors Marina L. Butovskaya 15 South Indian Foragers' Conflict Management in Comparative Perspective Peter M. Gardner 16 The Biocultural Evolution of Conflict Resolution between Groups Christopher Boehm 17 The 99%-Development and Socialization within an Evolutionary Context:
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