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Animal

Conflict

Felicity Huntingford and Angela Turner. Chapman and Hall, London, 1987, pp, Numerous black and white illustrations, a detailed reference section, $30.00/f14.95. Species and subject indices, ISBN 0 25920 6.

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As the authors imply in their introductory section ‘aggression’ is a muchmaligned word, having vastly different meanings to biologists, social psychologists, journalists and politicians. They prefer the term ‘conflict’ for perfectly acceptable reasons. Huntingford and Turner have produced an account largely for biologists of such phenomena, initially looking at patterns of animal conflict including a survey of conflict in organisms from protists to mammals and then looking at issues and concepts in the study of animal conflict. A second section is devoted to the causes of agonistic behaviour , separately examining behavioural mechanisms, the role of hormones and neural mechanisms. A third section concerns genetic and environmental (developmental) influences. One might comment that the distinction between sections two and three seems a little arbitrary (three seems to be nature versus nurture revisited). Part four of the book is concerned with consequences, fitness and evolutionary change and includes sections on the consequences of animal conflict, evolutionary history, the behavioural Although ecology of animal conflict and the biology of human aggression. one may favour a different organisation. this is a well-written, intelligent and sensitive account. Huntingford and Turner illustrate all the intricacies of biological factors, whilst clearly providing the necessary provisos for individuals who may have to deal with workers who examine similar phenomena from non-Biological viewpoints. Animal Conflict is also a __---.-_ nicely balanced book in that issues that escape serious consideration in The authors are to be other biological volumes, are all represented here. congratulated on largely having fulfilled their stated aims in the preface. This is an excellent, lucid, book for any young graduate biologist who intends starting work in the area of aggression research and the volume should also provide valuable insights to undergraduates of many types. This synthesising approach could, naturally, be used successfully for other behavioural categories e.g. sexual behaviour and feeding. Perhaps someone will do this?

Paul Frederic Brain, Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Swansea SA2 8PP, Great Britain

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