Title: The Oxford handbook of evolutionary perspectives on violence, homicide, and war /
Authors: Shackelford, Todd K. 1971-; Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Warfare; Violence Psychological aspects; Homicide Psychological aspects; War Psychological aspects; Evolutionary psychology; Violence psychology; Biological Evolution; Homicide psychology; Warfare
Abstract: This volume synthesizes the theoretical and empirical work of leading scholars in the evolutionary sciences to produce an extensive and authoritative review of this literature.
Contents: Evolutionary perspectives on violence, homicide, and war / James R. Liddle, Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana Weekes-Shackelford -- Violence across animals and within early hominins / Hogan M. Sherrow -- Comparative evolutionary perspectives on violence / Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher and Melissa Thompson -- Intimate partner violence: war at our doorsteps / Aaron T. Goetz and Gorge A. Romero -- Chastity, fidelity, and conquest: Biblical rules for women and war / John Hartung -- Filicide and child maltreatment: prospects for ultimate explanation / Grant T. Harris and Marnie E. Rice -- Siblicide in humans and other species / Catherine Salmon -- Familial homicide-suicide / Marieke C.A. Liem -- Suicide / R. Michael Brown and Stephanie L. Brown -- Evolutionary perspectives on male-male competition, violence, and homicide / Daniel J. Kruger and Carey J. Fitzgerald -- Evolutionary psychological perspectives on sexual offending: from etiology to intervention / Joseph A. Camilleri --^