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Yoshiba, "Local and Intertroop Variability in Ecology and Social Behavior of
Common Indian Langurs," in Phyllis C. Jay, ed., Primates: Studies in Adaptation
and Variability, p. 236. By the way, a good many other creatures engage in this
sort of infanticide, including male lions and chimpanzees. See John Tyler Bonner,
The Evolution of Culture in Animals, p. 31; Michael Patrick Ghiglieri, The Chim-
panzees of Kibale Forest: A Field Study of Ecology and Social Structure, p. 182.
Michael P. Ghiglieri, East of the Mountains of the Moon, p. 255. Edward O.
Wilson, Sociobiology, pp. 42, 72.
33. David P. Barash, The Hare and the Tortoise: Culture, Biology, and Human
Nature, p. 108.
34. Napoleon Chagnon, Yanomamo: The Fierce People, Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, New York, 1968, pp. 82-83. Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and
Witches: The Riddles of Culture, pp. 75-78.
35. This description, by the way, disagrees with the standard account of
Yanomamo warfare in Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomamo: The Fierce People.
Chagnon shows his raiders surprising an enemy village, killing a man or two, and
stealing any woman they happen to be lucky enough to find unprotected. My
information comes from a different source. Several years ago, anthropological
film-maker Jean Claude Luyat showed me a motion picture he had made of the
Masai warriors of Africa at war. The Masai stood on a dusty plain about the size of
a high school football field, facing off in a loosely organized mass. Occasionally, a
warrior would hurl a spear or stone. It seldom hit anyone. Yet killing was definitely
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Yoshiba, "Local and Intertroop Variability in Ecology and Social Behavior of
Common Indian Langurs," in Phyllis C. Jay, ed., Primates: Studies in Adaptation
and Variability, p. 236. By the way, a good many other creatures engage in this
sort of infanticide, including male lions and chimpanzees. See John Tyler Bonner,
The Evolution of Culture in Animals, p. 31; Michael Patrick Ghiglieri, The Chim-
panzees of Kibale Forest: A Field Study of Ecology and Social Structure, p. 182.
Michael P. Ghiglieri, East of the Mountains of the Moon, p. 255. Edward O.
Wilson, Sociobiology, pp. 42, 72.
33. David P. Barash, The Hare and the Tortoise: Culture, Biology, and Human
Nature, p. 108.
34. Napoleon Chagnon, Yanomamo: The Fierce People, Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, New York, 1968, pp. 82-83. Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and
Witches: The Riddles of Culture, pp. 75-78.
35. This description, by the way, disagrees with the standard account of
Yanomamo warfare in Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomamo: The Fierce People.
Chagnon shows his raiders surprising an enemy village, killing a man or two, and
stealing any woman they happen to be lucky enough to find unprotected. My
information comes from a different source. Several years ago, anthropological
film-maker Jean Claude Luyat showed me a motion picture he had made of the
Masai warriors of Africa at war. The Masai stood on a dusty plain about the size of
a high school football field, facing off in a loosely organized mass. Occasionally, a
warrior would hurl a spear or stone. It seldom hit anyone. Yet killing was definitely
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