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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

January 1, 2021

The book tells a story about human ape origins as it split from the Chimpanzee line and it provides a theory to account for human male aggression.

The authors speculate that a drying, drought-inducing climate increased the competition for food, pushing some chimpanzees to migrate (5-3 million years ago [mya]) further from their long-established rainforest habitat and into the more open woodlands where forested outcrops could supply them with energy-filling roots. As the climate continued to dry, the woodland chimps (Ardipithecus or Australopithecus ramidus or, simply, A. ramidus, from 4.4 mya) increasingly became separated from the rainforest chimps. This is when the Hominid line, with its distinctive bipedal gait that allowed chimps to double their traveling speed and to escape predators, began. Subsequently, 3-1.5 mya, another ape line split from the chimpanzees. These were the bonobos whose habitat south of the Zaire River provided an abundant food supply and therefore, less male-driven competition. This in turn created the more peaceful temperaments of the bonobos and allowed for the development of a central governance role for bonobo females.

This book’s description of the male chimpanzee temperament