The traditional notion of aggression as an antisocial instinct is being replaced by a
framework that considers it a tool of competition and negotiation. When survival depends on …

Social dominance is usually viewed from the perspective of intragroup competition over
access to limited resources. The present paper, while not denying the importance of such …

Conflicts of interest about where to go and what to do are a primary challenge of group
living. However, it remains unclear how consensus is achieved in stable groups with …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 PRIHATE VISIONS Page 3 PRIMATE VISIONS Gender, Race, and
Nature in the World of Modern Science DONNA HARAWAY ROUTLEDGE New York London …

Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the
nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition." This reviewer had to be …

Previous analyses of the evolution of primate groups have typically examined the problem in
a different way, focussing on both sexes together rather than on females. The classical …

The concept of dominance has contributed greatly to our understanding of social structure in
animals. Over the past three decades, however, a variety of concepts and definitions of …

This book grew from small beginnings as I began to find unexpected patterns emerging from
the data in the literature. The more I thought about the way in which primate social systems …

Despite the depiction of nature" red in tooth and claw", cooperation is actually widespread in
the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in …

After agonistic interactions among chimpanzees, former opponents often come into non-
violent body contact. The present paper gives a quantitative description of such contacts …