Evolutionary psychologists are not claiming all men are abusers or that domestic violence is a positive or necessary motor of human development. Many couples are harmonious, and most men do not rape.

Evolution, Males, and Violence By David P. Barash May 24, 2002 Imagine that you were interviewing an intelligent fish, and you asked it to describe its environment.

A guide to essential books about violenceHere are some of the most important books about violence, its evolution, and its uses during the twentieth century. • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651).

What evolutionary theory and animal studies show us is that the use of power in the form of proactive violence is essentially cowardly: selection has favored a tendency not to commit violence if ...

Is war a modern human invention, or does it have deep roots in biology? The age-old question has inspired theories by historians, anthropologists, and philosophers. People have long known that ...

As he wrote in his 1999 paper The Evolution of Coalitionary Killing: ... Rethinking the Instinct for Violence. Biological theories of violence, such as those championed by Wrangham and others, ...

In true nature-nurture fashion, though some kind of genetic preprogramming for violence may exist in humans as a result of our evolution, it is the specific environment that decides how, or ...

Over the years, the theory of evolution by natural selection has itself evolved, absorbing new findings about genes, DNA, ...

By Bob Grant Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve? Some biologists are calling for a rethink of the rules of evolution. Evolution, by its very nature, is a dynamic process. But just as fluid are ...