By Margaret Power. This view was not based in any ultimate theoretical model but instead emphasized ontogenetic and social structural factors.
Chimpanzee behavior is deja vue all over again.
Males of one community seemed systematically to annihilate a neighboring group, and infanticide and cannibalism were observed repeatedly, both within and between communities. Organized warfare, not carefree carnival, shapes chimpanzee sociality. Now Power challenges the revision, arguing that chimpanzees are indeed the peaceful, open, jolly creatures of early reports, when not driven to warfare and cannibalism by human provisioning as at Gombe and Mahale. There are three intertwined elements to the book. The bulk of the book is spent arguing that post-provisioning data gathered at Gombe and Mahale describe stressed animals and do not reflect normative patterns.