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    Yoshiba, "Local and Intertroop Variability in Ecology and Social Behavior of

    Common Indian Langurs," in Phyllis C. Jay, ed., Primates: Studies in Adaptation

    and Variability, p. 236.   By the way, a good many other creatures engage in this

    sort of infanticide, including male lions and chimpanzees.  See John Tyler Bonner,

    The Evolution of Culture in Animals, p. 31; Michael Patrick Ghiglieri, The Chim-

    panzees of Kibale Forest: A Field Study of Ecology and Social Structure, p. 182.

    Michael P. Ghiglieri,  East of the Mountains of the Moon, p. 255.  Edward O.

    Wilson, Sociobiology, pp. 42, 72.

    33.   David P. Barash, The Hare and the Tortoise: Culture, Biology, and Human

    Nature, p. 108.

    34. Napoleon Chagnon, Yanomamo: The Fierce People, Holt, Rinehart and

    Winston, New York, 1968, pp. 82-83.  Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and

    Witches: The Riddles of Culture, pp. 75-78.

    35. This description, by the way, disagrees with the standard account of

    Yanomamo warfare in Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomamo: The Fierce People.

    Chagnon shows his raiders surprising an enemy village, killing a man or two, and

    stealing any woman they happen to be lucky enough to find unprotected.  My

    information comes from a different source.  Several years ago, anthropological

    film-maker Jean Claude Luyat showed me a motion picture he had made of the

    Masai warriors of Africa at war.  The Masai stood on a dusty plain about the size of

    a high school football field, facing off in a loosely organized mass.  Occasionally, a

    warrior would hurl a spear or stone.  It seldom hit anyone. Yet killing was definitely

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