Aggression

Massaro, A. P., Gilby, I. C., Desai, N., Weiss, A., Feldblum, J. T., Pusey, A. E., Wilson, M. L. 2022. Correlates of individual participation in boundary patrols by male chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 377(1851), 20210151. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0151

Wilson, M. L.  2020. Hawks, Doves, and mongooses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (48) 30012-30013https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021188117

Glowacki, L., Wilson, M. L., Wrangham, R. W. 2020. Evolutionary anthropology and the origins of war. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 178, 963–982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.09.014. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., Glowacki, L. 2017. Violent cousins: Chimpanzees, humans, and the roots of war. Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. M. N. Muller, R. W. Wrangham and D. Pilbeam. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. link

Kirchhoff, C. A., Wilson, M. L., Mjungu, D.C., Raphael, J., Kamenya, S,. Collins, D.A. Infanticide in chimpanzees: Taphonomic case studies from Gombe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23335get pdf

Wilson, M. L. 2017. Demonic Male Theory. International Encyclopedia of Primatology. A. Fuentes, M. Bezanson, C. J. Campbell et al., Wiley.

Wilson, M. L., Boesch, C., Fruth, B., Furuichi, T., Gilby, I.C., , Hashimoto, C., Hobaiter, C., Hohman, G., Itoh, N., Koops, K., Lloyd, J., Matsuzawa, T., Mitani, J.C., Mjungu, D.C., Morgan, D., Mundry, R., Muller, M.N., Nakamura, M., Pruetz, J.D., Pusey, A.E., Riedel, J., Sanz, C., Schel, A.M., Simmons, N., Waller, M., Watts, D.P., White, F.J., Wittig, R.M., Zuberbühler, K., Wrangham, R.W. 2014. Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts. Nature 513: 414-417.

Gilby, I. C., M. L. Wilson and A. E. Pusey (2013). Ecology rather than psychology explains co-occurrence of predation and border patrols in male chimpanzees.  Animal Behaviour. 86: 61-74. DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.012 get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2013). Chimpanzees, warfare and the invention of peace. In: D. P. Fry (Ed.), War, Peace, and Human Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 361-388. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2012). Long-term studies of the Gombe chimpanzees. In: P. Kappeler & D. P. Watts (Eds.), Long-term Field Studies of Primates. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-22513-0  get pdf

Wilson, M. L., Kahlenberg, S. M., Wells, M. T. & Wrangham, R. W. (2012). Ecological and social factors affect the occurrence and outcomes of intergroup encounters in chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. 83(1): 277-291. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.004 get pdf

Terio, K. A., M. J. Kinsel, J. Raphael, T. Mlengeya, I. Lipende, C. Kirchhoff, B. Gilagiza, M. L. Wilson, S. Kamenya, J. D. Estes, B. F. Keele, R. S. Rudicell, W. Liu, S. Patton, D. A. Collins, B. H. Hahn, D. A. Travis and E. V. Lonsdorf (2011). Pathological lesions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) from Gombe National Park, Tanzania, 2004-2010. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 42(4): 597-607. get pdf

Pusey, A. E., C. Murray, W. R. Wallauer, M. L. Wilson, & E. Wroblewski. (2008). Severe aggression among female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology 29(4): 949-973.  get pdf

Williams, J. M., E. V. Lonsdorf, M. L. Wilson, J. Schumacher-Stankey, J. Goodall, & A. E. Pusey. (2008). Causes of death in the Kasekela chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology 70(8): 766-777. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2007) Intergroup aggression in wild primates. (Introduction to special issue on intergroup aggression.) Behaviour 144(12): 1469-1471. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., M. D. Hauser & R. W. Wrangham. (2007). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) modify grouping and vocal behaviour in response to location-specific risk. Behaviour 144(12): 1621-1653. get pdf

Wrangham, R. W., M. L. Wilson & M. N. Muller (2006). Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans. Primates 47(1): 14-26. get pdf

Wrangham, R. W. & M. L. Wilson (2004). Collective violence: Comparisons between youths and chimpanzees. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1036: 1-25. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., W. R. Wallauer, & A. E. Pusey (2004). New cases of intergroup violence among chimpanzees in Gombe National Park. International Journal of Primatology 25(3): 523-549. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2003). Environmental factors and aggression in non-human primates. Neurobiology of Aggression: Understanding and Preventing Violence. M. Mattson, Ed., Totowa, NJ, The Humana Press, Inc.: 167-190. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. & R. W. Wrangham (2003). Intergroup relations in chimpanzees. Annual Review of Anthropology. W. H. Durham. Palo Alto, CA, Annual Reviews Inc. 32: 363-92. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., Britton, N. F. & Franks, N. R. (2002). Chimpanzees and the mathematics of battle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of  London, Series B, 269, 1107-1112. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., M. D. Hauser & R. W. Wrangham (2001). Does participation in intergroup conflict depend on numerical assessment, range location, or rank for wild chimpanzees? Animal Behaviour 61(6): 1203-1216. get pdf

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