Contents ; Part One: Introduction to Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War ; 1. Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War ; James R. Liddle, Todd K. Shackelford, and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford ; 2. Comparative evolutionary perspectives on violence ; Hogan M. Sherrow ; 3. Violence in chimpanzees and other non-human primates ; Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher and Melissa Emery Thompson ; Part Two: Evolutionary Perspectives on Familial Violence and Homicide ; 4. Intimate Partner Violence: War at our Doorsteps ; Aaron T. Goetz and Gorge A. Romero ; 5. Chastity, Fidelity and Conquest: Biblical Rules for Women and War ; John Hartung ; 6. Filicide and Child Maltreatment: Prospects for Ultimate Explanation ; Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice and N. Zoe Hilton ; 7. Siblicide in Humans and Other Species ; Catherine Salmon ; 8. Familial homicide-suicide ; Marieke Liem ; 9. Suicide ; R. Michael Brown and Stephanie L. Brown ; 10. Evolutionary perspectives on male-male competition, violence, and homicide ; Daniel J. Kruger and Carey J. Fitzgerald ; Part Three: Evolutionary Perspectives on Extra-Familial Violence and Homicide ; 11. Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Offending: From Etiology to Intervention ; Joseph A. Camilleri ; 12. Women and aggression ; Anne Campbell and Catharine Cross ; 13. Culture of Honor, Violence, and Homicide ; Ryan P. Brown and Lindsey L. Osterman ; 14. Sacrifice and Sacred Values: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religious Terrorism ; Richard Sosis, Erika J. Phillips, and Candace S. Alcorta ; 15. Animal Abuse and Cruelty ; Emily G Patterson-Kane and Heather Piper ; 16. If, When, and Why Adolescent Bullying is Adaptive ; Anthony Volk, Joseph Camilleri, Andrew Dane, and Zopito Marini ; Part Four: Evolutionary Perspectives on War ; 17. The Male Warrior Hypothesis: The Evolutionary Psychology of Intergroup Aggression, Violence, and Warfare ; Mark Van Vugt ; 18. A Feminist Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Violence Against and Inequitable Treatment of Women, and Conflict Within and Between Human Collectives, Including Nation-States ; Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. Den Boer ; 19. War Histories in Evolutionary Perspective: Insights from Prehistoric North America ; Patricia M. Lambert ; 20. War, Evolution, and the Nature of Human Nature ; David Livingstone Smith ; 21. Parasite Stress, Collectivism, and Human Warfare ; Kenneth Letendre, Corey L. Fincher, and Randy Thornhill ; 22. Band of Brothers or Band of Siblings?: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sexual Integration of Combat Forces ; Kingsley R. Browne ; 23. An Evolutionary Perspective on Child Development in the Context of War and Political Violence ; Jay Belsky ; Part Five: Conclusions and Future Directions for Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War ; 24. The Extremes of Conflict in Literature: Violence, Homicide, and War ; Joseph Carroll ; 25. Why Religion is Unable to Minimize Lethal and Nonlethal Societal Dysfunction Within and Between Nations ; Gregory S. Paul ; 26. Peace and the Human Animal: Toward Integration of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology and Peace Studies ; Nancy K. Dess ; 27. Human Violence and Evolutionary Consciousness ; Gregory Gorelik, Todd K. Shackelford, and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford