Collective violence: Comparisons between youths and chimpanzees

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1036, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-256

  Wrangham, Richard W ^a   Wilson, Michael L ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Culture of honor; Gangs; Gender; States; Violence

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHIMPANZEE; COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE; COMPETITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIME; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; JUVENILE; NONHUMAN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 17744389201     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1330.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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