Table of Contents

I: Introduction; 1: The Nature and Evolution of Sociality: Introduction; II: Origins of Sociality; 2: Mammalian and Primate Roots of Human Sociality; 3: Wild Justice, Cooperation, and Fair Play: Minding Manners, Being Nice, and Feeling Good; 4: Management of Aggression as a Component of Sociality; III: Mechanisms of Sociality; 5: Proximate Mechanisms Regulating Sociality and Social Monogamy, in the Context of Evolution; 6: Signals, Symbols, and Human Cooperation; 7: Darwinian Evolution by the Natural Selection of Heritable Variation: Definition of Parameters and Application to Social Behaviors; IV: Primate Sociality; 8: Rethinking Sociality: Cooperation and Aggression among Primates; 9: Sociality among Kin and Nonkin in Nonhuman Primate Groups; 10: Revisiting Conflict Resolution: Is There a Role for Emphasizing Negotiation and Cooperation Instead of Conflict and Reconciliation?; V: Evolution of Sociality; 11: Emergent Behaviors and Human Sociality; 12: Sociality and the Concept of Culture in Human Origins; 13: Large-Game Hunting and the Evolution of Human Sociality; 14: Cooperation, Commitment, and Communication in the Evolution of Human Sociality; VI: Philosophical Overview; 15: Primate Sociality and Natural Law Theory: A Case Study on the Relevance of Science for Ethics

About the Author

Robert W. Sussman

Reviews

-This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans.- --Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly -This timely and useful volume provides not only a reminder of the wealth of valuable information available about this genus, but also presents a tantalizing set of hypotheses, ideas, and predictions that can, perhaps in the near future, be tested on that rarest of zoological treasures: a new species from a well-studied taxon.- --William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans." --Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly "This timely and useful volume provides not only a reminder of the wealth of valuable information available about this genus, but also presents a tantalizing set of hypotheses, ideas, and predictions that can, perhaps in the near future, be tested on that rarest of zoological treasures: a new species from a well-studied taxon." --William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans." --Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly "This timely and useful volume provides not only a reminder of the wealth of valuable information available about this genus, but also presents a tantalizing set of hypotheses, ideas, and predictions that can, perhaps in the near future, be tested on that rarest of zoological treasures: a new species from a well-studied taxon." --William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans."
--Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly