Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Violence and Peacefulness as Behavioral Potentialities of Primates -- Introduction -- Terminology -- Aggression and Violence -- Three Other Terminological Issues -- Dominance Relations and Agonistic Activity -- Use of Long-Term Data -- Improved Methodology -- Dominance Consciousness -- Polyadic Interactions -- Pro-social Aggression -- Nonviolent Tactics -- War and Peace -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- 2. Aggression as a Well-integrated Part of Primate Social Relationships: A Critique of the Seville Statement on Violence -- Introduction -- Traditional Emphasis in Biology -- The Statement's Ideological Nature -- The Paradox of Constructive Aggression -- Moralistic Aggression in Chimpanzees -- Aggressive Socialization in Rhesus Monkeys -- How Relationships Are Maintained -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3. Dominance Hierarchies as Partial Orders. A New Look at Old Ideas -- Review -- Equality -- Outline of the Procedure -- The Full Matrix -- The Old Males -- The New or "Peripheral" Males -- The Young Natal Males -- Matrix Permutation Procedures for Evaluating EQ and SST -- Conclusion and Prospectus -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: Dominance Matrices -- 4. Determinants of Aggression in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri) -- Introduction -- Saimiri: General Adaptations -- Aggression -- Theoretical Integration -- General Adaptations for Nonaggressive Living -- Adult Male Aggression -- Subadult and Young Adult Male Aggression -- Adult Females and Young -- Evolutionary Selection and the Costs/Benefits of Aggression -- Toward a Comprehensive Theory -- Exemplifying the Theory -- What Is a Comprehensive Theory -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References.

5. Causes and Consequences of Nonaggression in the Woolly Spider Monkey, or Muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides) -- Introduction -- Constraints on Aggression -- Evidence of Nonaggression -- Agonistic Behavior -- Spatial Relations -- Sexual Behavior -- Affiliative Relationships -- Consequences of Nonaggression -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: Research Methodology -- 6. The Development of Dominance Relations Before Puberty in Cercopithecine Societies -- Introduction -- Study Groups, Subjects, and Methodology -- Study Groups and Subjects -- Sampling Methods -- Results -- Dominance Relations Among Juveniles -- Dyadic Relations with Adult Females -- Support and Aggression Received During Polyadic Interaction -- Sex-specific Responses to the Challenge of Rank Acquisition -- Discussion -- Female Determination of Juvenile Rank and Stability of the Adult Hierarchy -- Taxonomic Differences in Juvenile Male Dominance Relations -- Future Research -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7. The Development of Agonistic and Affiliative Structures in Preschool Play Groups -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Social Activity as a Function of Age -- Principal Components of Dyadic Activity -- Development Changes in Social Participation -- Temporal Stability of Participation Factor Structures -- Peer Conflict and Social Dominance Relations -- Dominance and the Coordination of Affiliative Activity -- Discussion -- Summary -- References -- 8. Variability in the Patterns of Agonistic Behavior of Preschool Children -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Sample Subjects -- Observational Procedures -- Results -- Discussion -- Summary -- References -- 9. Cultures of War and Peace: A Comparative Study of Waorani and Semai -- Introduction -- Data Collection and Analysis -- 1. Construction of a Model of Waorani Cultural Activities.

2. Construction of a Model of Waorani Social Relations -- 3. Construction of a Model of Waorani World View -- 4. Comparison of Results of Above Operations with Comparable Semai Models Already Derived -- The Semai -- The Waorani -- The Historical Contexts of Warfare and Nonviolence -- The Regional Culture of War -- The Waorani Culture of War -- The Motivational Context of Waorani Warfare -- Comparative Analysis -- Similarities -- Differences -- The End of Warfare -- Discussion -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 10. The Rise, Maintenance, and Destruction of Peaceable Polity: A Preliminary Essay in Political Ecology -- Introduction -- Topic -- Definitions of Peaceability -- Peoples Discussed -- Political Ecology -- Introduction -- Refuge -- Transience of this Adaptation -- Dualism: Invaders, Refugees, Frontiers -- Invader Power and Attitudes towards Refugees -- Refugee Responses: Personal -- Refugee Responses: Social -- Conjectural History of this Adaptation -- Introduction -- Origins -- Destruction of Refuge -- Destroying the Peace -- Rise of New Ethnic Identities -- Peaceable Intentional Societies -- Introduction -- Cenobites -- Shared Characteristics -- Conclusion -- Perils of Essentialism -- An Adaptive Model of Peaceability -- The Future of Negative Peaceability -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 11. Social Structure, Psychocultural Dispositions, and Violent Conflict: Extensions from a Cross-cultural Study -- Introduction -- The Concept of Conflict -- Measuring Political Violence -- Hypotheses about Societal Differences in Conflict Behavior -- Social Structural Hypotheses -- Psychocultural Hypotheses -- Results -- Procedures -- Analysis -- Extensions of the Model -- Northern Ireland -- Norway -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Measures and Sources for the Independent Variables.

Appendix: The Seville Statement on Violence -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This study explores the role of aggression in primate social systems and its implications for human behaviour.

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