Synopses & Reviews
The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War synthesizes the theoretical and empirical work of leading scholars in the evolutionary sciences to produce the first extensive and authoritative review of this literature. The handbook includes chapters on intimate partner violence, child abuse, sibling violence, suicide, adolescent bullying, sexual abuse, religious terrorism, animal cruelty, and several chapters addressing human and non-human intergroup aggression and war. This breadth of coverage is unique, and ensures that the handbook provides essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, criminology, sociology, ethology, biology, and behavioral ecology.
Review
"The authors provide theoretical paradigms to explain various forms of violence in an easy-to-read book that will appeal to a wide audience." -- DOODY'S
About the Author
Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Much of his research addresses sexual conflict in humans, including violence, rape, and homicide.
Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Ph.D., is Special Lecturer in Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her research focuses on conflict in parent-child and other familial relationships.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part One: Introduction to Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War
1. Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War
James R. Liddle, Todd K. Shackelford, and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford
2.Violence Across Animals and Within Early Hominins
Hogan M. Sherrow
3. Comparative Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence
Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher and Melissa Emery Thompson
Part Two: Evolutionary Perspectives on Familial Violence and Homicide
4. Intimate Partner Violence: War at our Doorsteps
Aaron T. Goetz and Gorge A. Romero
5. Chastity, Fidelity and Conquest: Biblical Rules for Women and War
John Hartung
6. Filicide and Child Maltreatment: Prospects for Ultimate Explanation
Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice and N. Zoe Hilton
7. Siblicide in Humans and Other Species
Catherine Salmon
8. Familial homicide-suicide
Marieke Liem
9. Suicide
R. Michael Brown and Stephanie L. Brown
10. Evolutionary perspectives on male-male competition, violence, and homicide
Daniel J. Kruger and Carey J. Fitzgerald
Part Three: Evolutionary Perspectives on Extra-Familial Violence and Homicide
11. Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Offending: From Etiology to Intervention
Joseph A. Camilleri
12. Women and aggression
Anne Campbell and Catharine Cross
13. Culture of Honor, Violence, and Homicide
Ryan P. Brown and Lindsey L. Osterman
14. Sacrifice and Sacred Values: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religious Terrorism
Richard Sosis, Erika J. Phillips, and Candace S. Alcorta
15. Animal Abuse and Cruelty
Emily G Patterson-Kane and Heather Piper
16. If, When, and Why Adolescent Bullying is Adaptive
Anthony Volk, Joseph Camilleri, Andrew Dane, and Zopito Marini
Part Four: Evolutionary Perspectives on War
17. The Male Warrior Hypothesis: The Evolutionary Psychology of Intergroup Aggression, Violence, and Warfare
Mark Van Vugt
18. A Feminist Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Violence Against and Inequitable Treatment of Women, and Conflict Within and Between Human Collectives, Including Nation-States
Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. Den Boer
19. War Histories in Evolutionary Perspective: Insights from Prehistoric North America
Patricia M. Lambert
20. War, Evolution, and the Nature of Human Nature
David Livingstone Smith
21. Parasite Stress, Collectivism, and Human Warfare
Kenneth Letendre, Corey L. Fincher, and Randy Thornhill
22. Band of Brothers or Band of Siblings?: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sexual Integration of Combat Forces
Kingsley R. Browne
23. An Evolutionary Perspective on Child Development in the Context of War and Political Violence
Jay Belsky
Part Five: Conclusions and Future Directions for Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War
24. The Extremes of Conflict in Literature: Violence, Homicide, and War
Joseph Carroll
25. Why Religion is Unable to Minimize Lethal and Nonlethal Societal Dysfunction Within and Between Nations
Gregory S. Paul
26. Peace and the Human Animal: Toward Integration of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology and Peace Studies
Nancy K. Dess
27. Resource Acquisition, Violence, and Evolutionary Consciousness
Gregory Gorelik, Todd K. Shackelford, and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford