This site has been permanently archived. This is a static copy provided by the University of Southampton.

TY - GEN ID - cogprints738 UR - http://cogprints.org/738/ A1 - Moore, Jim Y1 - 1992/// N2 - 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), there is a risk people unfamiliar with the chimpanzee data will accept her conclusions uncritically. At the same time, 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, 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. KW - chimpanzee KW - aggression KW - territoriality KW - violence KW - Gombe KW - Mahale KW - provisioning KW - hunter-gatherer KW - frustration KW - dominance KW - human nature KW - history of science TI - Book review of _The Egalitarians -- Human and Chimpanzee_ by Margaret Power SP - 259 AV - public EP - 262 ER -