Frans de Waal. Peacemaking Among Primates. Cambridge

Shirley C. Strum. Almost Human

Frans de Waal. Peacemaking Among Primates

Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. "Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange." In The Adapted Mind

The multi-thousand mile traditional trade routes over which these treks take place are called the "walkabout." Melville J. Herskovits. 1940. Economic Anthropology

Melville J. Herskovits. 1940. Economic Anthropology

Melville J. Herskovits. 1940. Economic Anthropology

Melville J. Herskovits. 1940. Economic Anthropology

Melville J. Herskovits. Economic Anthropology

Robert L. Trivers. "The evolution of reciprocal altruism." Quarterly Review of Biology, 46[4], 1971

Frans de Waal. Peacemaking Among Primates

Robert B. Cialdini. Influence

Virginia Morell. "Genes May Link Ancient Eurasians, Native Americans." Science, 24 April 1998

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Bronislaw Malinowski. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Prospect Heights, IL

The Norsemen of the Middle Ages, for example, based their society on dairy farming (Heather Pringle. "Death in Norse Greenland." Science, 14 February 1997

Manuel de Landa. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York

Manuel de Landa. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York

Measles is caused by a close relative of the rinderpest-producing paramyxovirus (genus Morbillivirus). A second close relation of the paramyxovirus appears in another post-domestication-era human companion

William H. McNeill. Plagues and Peoples. New York

William Raymond Manchester. The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968. Boston

Albert Speer. Inside the Third Reich--Memoirs, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. New York

Scott P. Carroll, et. al. "Genetic differentiation of fitness-associated traits among rapidly evolving populations of soapberry bug." Evolution, 51 (4), 1997

David Sloan Wilson. "Adaptive genetic variation and human evolutionary psychology." Ethology and Sociobiology, 15, 1994

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Thomas D. Seeley. Honeybee Ecology

Edward O. Wilson. The Insect Societies. Cambridge

For a vivid description of Mongol population decimations in East Asia, see

Daniel J. Boorstin. The Discoverers

This caught on primarily in the province of Yunnan. (E.N. Anderson. The Food of China. New Haven

In roughly 300 b.c., Kautalya wrote the Arthashastra - a book summarizing the entire body of Indian political science and economics to his day. These quotes are either taken directly or paraphrased from the Arthashastra by Balkrishna Govind Gokhale in his Asoka Maurya, New York

Balkrishna Govind Gokhale. Asoka Maurya

Manuel de Landa. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York

Howard Bloom. "Purebloods

S. Zuckerman. The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes