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Review Essay of D.M. Buss (2005), The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill. New York, Penguin
No full textBuss postulates that the human mind has developed adaptations for killing (killing or homicide modules), that murder is qualitatively different from all other forms of violence, and that homicidal ideation (fantasies) almost invariably precedes carried-out kills, and he claims that Daly & Wilson's slip-up argument fails because premeditated mate (spouse, partner) killing cannot result from the mere slip-ups central to the by-product (of ever more desperate strategies of mate guarding) hypothesis. In this review a number of alternative interpretations are presented: Normal distribution and coincidental status striving theory, special taxon of substrate dysfunctions, phylogenetic regression theory, and overcontrol theory. Finally, the problematic mate-killing module (as allegedly "superior" to the by-product theory) and the obscure role of homicidal ideation are critically assessed
5-6). Of badges, bonds and boundaries: Ingroup/outgroup differentiation and ethnocentrism revisited. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Sociobiological
No full textAbstract At the fifth Annual Meeting of the Europea
Three works on war - Keith F. Otterbein, How War Began (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2004), xv + 292 pages. ISBN: 1-58544-330-1. - Douglas P. Fry, The Human Potential for Peace: An anthropological challenge to assumptions about war and violence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), xvii + 365 pages. ISBN 0-19-518178-6. - Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xv + 822 pages. ISBN 0-19-926213-6.
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