DENNEN, J. VAN DER, AND V. FALGER, EDS. — Soviobiology and conflict. Evolutionary perspectives on competition, cooperation, violence and warfare

London: Chapman and Hall, 1990; 8vo (24cm), (8+)338pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. As new. Rare. ¶ l This is a collection of thoroughly revised and updated papers given at a European Sociobiological Society conference in Jerusalem in 1987, written by ethologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and those with an interest in politics and peace research. 'These studies highlight the complexities and intricacies of the cost-benefit calculus involved in competitive behaviour. This has led to such insights as that conflict and cooperation are always intertwined; the 'drive' models of aggression have become obsolete; that violent interaction is an evolutionary means, not an end in itself; and that it makes sense only in the context of reproductive effort.'