The current review aims to unify existing views of altruism through an examination of the
biological bases of a fundamental form of giving: altruistic responding. Altruistic responding …

We argue that the study of social complexity can follow two different approaches, based on
how it is seen from the outside or on how it is experienced from within. Recent focus has …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

The concept of peace, with its corollary of behaviours, strategies and social implications, is
commonly believed as a uniquely human feature. Through a comparative approach, we …

Many patterns of affiliative behaviour have been described for primates, for instance:
reciprocation and exchange of grooming, grooming others of similar rank, reconciliation of …

A basic premise in behavioural ecology is the cost-benefit arithmetic, which determines both
behavioural decisions and evolutionary processes. Aggressive interactions can be costly on …

In social mammals, conflict resolution involves the reunion of former opponents (aggressor
and victim) after an aggressive event (reconciliation) or post-conflict triadic contacts with a …

In this response, we address eight issues concerning our proposal that human minds
contain adaptations for revenge and forgiveness. Specifically, we discuss (a) the inferences …

Consolation, that is, postconflict affiliative contact by a bystander toward a recipient of
aggression, has acquired an important role in the debate about empathy in great apes …