ABSTRACT
Tucked away in a mountainous corner of the world on the border between China and Myanmar (also known as Burma) are various communities of the WA people. Aggression and violence are natural parts of a range of behaviors for many species in the world, and they can fall within both conspecific (within species) and interspecific (between species) categories. This chapter deals with the research of conspecific aggression and violence. To be sure, an important facet of human violence extends beyond conspecific violence. The chapter describes the work of many researchers has pointed out intriguing parallels between violence in non-human and human populations. It talks about competition over resources and territory, cannibalism, or raiding and ambushing. In general, with regards to instances of cannibalism among great apes, in the rare instances in which the practice has been observed in chimpanzees, the behavior can involve young chimpanzees from neighboring populations.
