?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Book+review+of+_The+Egalitarians+--+Human+and+Chimpanzee_+by+Margaret+Power&rft.creator=Moore%2C+Jim&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.subject=Ethology&rft.subject=Primatology&rft.subject=Sociobiology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=This+book+combines+some+very+interesting+ideas+with+stunningly+poor+scholarship+to+create+a+potentially+missleading+book.+Because+the+basic+thesis+--+that+episodic+extreme+aggression+seen+among+chimpanzees+at+Gombe+and+Mahale+has+been+artificially+induced+by+provisioning+--+has+been+widely+considered+and+parallels+other+criticisms+of+nonhuman+primate+data+(e.g.+debates+over+the+'naturalness'+of+langur+infanticide)%2C+there+is+a+risk+people+unfamiliar+with+the+chimpanzee+data+will+accept+her+conclusions+uncritically.+At+the+same+time%2C+her+attempt+to+integrate+developmental+psychology+with+socioecology+in+humans+and+apes+is+interesting+and+it'd+be+a+shame+to+dismiss+that+approach+simply+because+of+the+poor+application.+Secondarily%2C+the+book+should+be+of+interest+to+historians+of+science+because+it+maps+so+clearly+onto+the+tradition+of+contrasting+Rousseauian+and+Hobbesian+views+of+(human)+nature.&rft.date=1992&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F738%2F1%2FPower.html&rft.identifier=++Moore%2C+Jim++(1992)+Book+review+of+_The+Egalitarians+--+Human+and+Chimpanzee_+by+Margaret+Power.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F738%2F