Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans

Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 14 - 26
Published: Jan 1, 2006
Abstract
This paper tests the proposal that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans have similar rates of death from intraspecific aggression, whereas chimpanzees have higher rates of non-lethal physical attack (Boehm 1999, Hierarchy in the forest: the evolution of egalitarian behavior. Harvard University Press). First, we assembled data on lethal aggression from long-term studies of nine communities of chimpanzees living in five populations. We...
Paper Details
Title
Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans
Published Date
Jan 1, 2006
Journal
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
14 - 26
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