Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals - The Great Game of Life

Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life treats the human species, first and foremost, as an animal, one with special traits and a big influence on Earth's other biota. The book discusses social behavior as it relates to dominance and aggression, and how humans are similar to, and different from, other animals in their acts of dominance and aggression.
The book discusses the chemical, physical, and genetic components of aggression and how animalistic features influence human thinking and behavior. It concludes with a discussion of specific types of aggression in humans, including murder, exploitation, abuse, gangs, hate groups, terrorists, and warfare, and how dominance is used in the workplace, religion, and politics.
The book takes an evolutionary perspective, talking about the survival benefits of aggression and dominance, and how ultimately, dominance and aggression helped make humans the ultradominant species on earth.

• Covers the chemical, physical, and genetic nature of dominance and aggression
• Discusses anatomical and behavioral similarities between humans and animals relevant to dominance and aggression
• Identifies traits of dominant animals
• Includes coverage of invertebrates and vertebrates
• Describes dominance and aggression in the workplace, religion, and politics
• Investigates types of human aggression, including murder, exploitation, abuse, gangs, hate groups, terrorists, and warfare

H. R. Hermann has been a biological researcher and university professor for over 50 years, focusing primarily on the fields of behavior, morphology and evolution. He has numerous publications, including over 20 books and nine book chapters on a wide variety of subjects. As editor and author of four Academic Press books on social insects between 1979 and 1982 and a book on insect defenses by Praeger Scientific, he played an important role in facilitating an understanding of animalistic social behavior and opening the door for further investigation in that field. He has studied social interactions in organisms from ants and wasps to humans and has published on human behavior with several papers and a historical and behavioral account of Native American music in Making the Wind Sing, Native American Music and the Connected Breath. Undergraduate studies were at New Orleans University and graduate school was completed at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. As a professor and researcher of defensive systems in social species, he spent 30 years in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Georgia where he taught a wide variety of courses, including evolution, medical biology, social behavior, histology and comparative morphology. He currently teaches human anatomy and physiology at Florida SouthWestern State College in Ft. Myers, FL, and is carrying out research on social species in that area.