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Sociobiology and Conflict

Evolutionary perspectives on competition, cooperation, violence and warfare

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Johan M. G. Dennen

    1. Polemological Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Vincent S. E. Falger

    1. Department of International Relations, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Polemos Pantoon Pater
      Pages 1-19

  3. Conflict and Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Intergroup competition and conflict in animals and man

      • J. A. R. A. M. Van Hooff
      Pages 23-54

    3. Selfish cooperation in social roles: the vigilance game in continuous time

      • U. Motro, D. Cohen
      Pages 55-61

    4. The biological instability of social equilibria

      • P. P. van der Molen
      Pages 63-96

  4. Sociobiology and Enmity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. The cerebral bridge from family to foe

      • L. Tiger
      Pages 99-106

    3. The evolutionary foundations of revolution

      • J. Lopreato, F. P. A. Green
      Pages 107-122

    4. Loyalty and aggression in human groups

      • Y. Peres, M. Hopp
      Pages 123-130

    5. Territoriality and threat perceptions in urban humans

      • M. Hopp, O. A. E. Rasa
      Pages 131-146

  6. The Conflict about Sociobiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. The sociobiology of conflict and the conflict about sociobiology: science and morals in the larger debate

      • U. SegerstrÃ¥le
      Pages 273-284

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 285-338
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About this book

1. 1 THE STUDY OF CONFLICT Polemos Pantoon Pater Heraclitus Conflict on all levels of organic existence is pervasive, persistent, ubiquitous. Conflict is the universal experience of all life forms. Organisms are bound in multiple conflict-configurations and -coalitions, which have their own dynamic and their own logic. This does not mean, however, that the more paroxysmal forms of conflict behaviour, naked violence and destruction, are also universal. Conflict and cooperation are always intertwined. Conflicts do, however, have a propensity to gravitate towards violence. There is, as Pettman (1975) pointed out, no accepted or agreed list of the social units by which conflicts might be classified. To talk of conflict in intra­ personal, inter-personal, familial, group, class, ethnic, religious, intra-state or inter-state terms is to assume, perhaps erroneously, that 'each kind of social unit, having its own range of size, structure, and institutions, will also have its own modes of interaction and thus its own patterns of conflict with other social units' (Fink, 1968) like and unlike itself. Such an assumption merits scrutiny on its own, since, despite the plausibility of some sort of analytical link between the parties to a conflict and the nature of the confrontation that ensues, the link should be demonstrated and not allowed to stand by assertion alone. This volume is devoted to one type of analysis of conflict, the socio­ biological one.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Polemological Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Johan M. G. Dennen

  • Department of International Relations, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Vincent S. E. Falger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociobiology and Conflict

  • Book Subtitle: Evolutionary perspectives on competition, cooperation, violence and warfare

  • Editors: Johan M. G. Dennen, Vincent S. E. Falger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1830-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Chapman and Hall 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-33770-3Published: 31 July 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7316-5Published: 12 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1830-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 338

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Agriculture, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology

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