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Aggression in Humans and Other Primates Edited by Hans-Henning Kortüm & Jürgen Heinze Aggression in Humans and Other Primates Biology, Psychology, Sociology Edited by Hans-Henning Kortüm & Jürgen Heinze DE GRUYTER ISBN978-3-11-029133-9 e-ISBN978-3-11-029136-0 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2013WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Printingandbinding:Hubert&Co.GmbH&Co.KG,Göttingen Coverimage:Hemera/Thinkstock (cid:2)Printedonacid-freepaper PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com Contents Editors‘ Preface .................................................................................................... vii List of Contributors ............................................................................................. ix Aggression in Humans and Other Animals – A Biological Prelude ............ 1 JÜRGEN HEINZE Aggression/Violence in Humans and Other Primates – A Historian’s Prelude ......................................................................................... 9 HANS-HENNING KORTÜM What Theoretical Biology has to say on Aggression in Humans and Animals ........................................................................................ 23 PETER HAMMERSTEIN Aggression in Humans and Other Primates – Biology, Psychology, Sociology .............................................................................................................. 41 DIETMAR ZINNER AND BRANDON C. WHEELER Explaining Aggression: The Ultimate-Proximate Problem ........................... 87 CLAIRE EL MOUDEN Human Sex Differences in Aggression from the Perspective of Sexual Selection ................................................................................................... 101 JOHN ARCHER The Logic of Aggression – Reciprocal Altruism, Psychological Games and the Persistence of Conflict .......................................................................... 121 LUCIANO ANDREOZZI What causes Large-Scale Variation in Homicide Rates? ............................... 137 MANUEL EISNER One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Violence, Uncertainty, and Safety ......... 163 MANFRED J. HOLLER AND BARBARA KLOSE-ULLMANN Index ..................................................................................................................... 181 Editors’ Preface There is always much talking about cooperation among different disciplines, but it does seldom happen. Especially the scientific dialogue between Natural Sciences and Humanities is extremely difficult. The ways of thinking and argu- ing are so different. Nevertheless, the editors of this book – a biologist and an historian – are convinced that such a dialogue between different science cul- tures could be possible and – what seems of even greater importance – could be a fruitful one. As a step forward, they organised a symposium at the Uni- versity of Regensburg in September 2011 in order to bring together scientists belonging to different disciplines. The congress papers here collected are all dealing with (in a biological understanding) aggression and (in a wider under- standing) violence. Even if it seems too optimistic to think that a common theo- ry could be formulated for such different sciences as Evolutionary Biology, Neurobiology, Psychology, History, Criminology, Cultural Studies etc., the editors believe in the existence of quite a lot of similarities in explaining and understanding aggression and violence. This could further more cooperation in the future. We have to thank the Regensburger Universitätsstiftung for financial support, Dr Stephanie Dawson and Julia Lauterbach (Publishing House DeGruyter) and Katharina Fritsch (University of Regensburg) for all their support. Last but not least, we have to thank our authors. Due to their readiness to give us their con- ference papers in a short time after the conference, it was possible to publish the book so quickly. Regensburg, October 2012 Jürgen Heinze Hans-Henning Kortüm List of Contributors LUCIANO ANDREOZZI Professor, Department of Economics at University of Trento. JOHN ARCHER Professor, School of Psychology at University of Central Lancashire. MANUEL EISNER Professor, Institute of Comparative & Developmental Criminology at Universi- ty of Cambridge. CLAIRE EL MOUDEN Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow, Department of Zoology at Oxford Uni- versity. PETER HAMMERSTEIN Professor, Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University Berlin. JÜRGEN HEINZE Professor, Institute of Zoology at University of Regensburg. MANRED J. HOLLER Professor (em.), Institute of Economics, at University of Hamburg. BARBARA KLOSE-ULLMANN Writer and Freelancer at an Academic Publisher, Munich. HANS HENNING KORTÜM Professor, Institute of History at University of Regensburg. BRANDON C. WHEELER Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive Ethology Lab at German Primate Cen- ter Göttingen. DIETMAR ZINNER Senior Scientist, Research Group Cognitive Ethology at German Primate Center Göttingen.
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