ABSTRACT
This chapter suggest that there has been an overemphasis on a few short-term, but visibly costly events as driving the natural selection for behavioral traits and examines the longer-term behavioral patterns and relationship histories. One of the major findings emerging from the growing number of post conflict behavior studies is that of variability in the types and patterns of behavior related to conflict negotiation and resolution. Aggression and conflict have been and continue to be of great interest to anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, philosophers, and others who study the human condition. The main foci of the discourse surrounding conflict rest soundly upon the Dawkinsian "selfish gene"/individualistic focus concept: cooperation as driven by selfish propagation. Conflicts might then be seen as perturbations in an overall system, not necessarily the drivers of such a system. Many primate species do exhibit reconciliation behaviors at variable frequencies, but these are not necessarily specific sets of behavior.
