Lethal and Nonlethal Violence Against Wives and the Evolutionary Psychology of Male Sexual Proprietariness

By Margo I. Wilson, M. Daly. 2002

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Research on Domestic Violence in the 1990s: Making Distinctions (2000, background): “…that has arisen from a focus on gender includes theory focused on the broader social context (Dobash & Dobash, 1992, 1998; Straus, 1999), social construction of gender models (Anderson, 1997; Dobash & Dobash, 1998), and evolutionary models (Buss & Shackelford, 1997; Wilson & Daly, 1996, 1998).”
From Mate Retention to Murder: Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men's Partner-Directed Violence (2009, background): “…behaviors, including altruism and cooperation (Kruger, 2003; Stewart-Williams, 2008), conflict and violence (Archer, 2006b; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Wilson & Daly, 1998), decision making (Cosmides & Tooby, 1992; Gigerenzer, 2008), interpersonal relationships (Ackerman & Kenrick, 2008), and mating…”
The evolution of intimate partner violence (2011, background): “Rather, it becomes activated by various cues indicating that the man is confronting the relevant adaptive problems: “any variable that has been a statistical predictor of variations in the risk of loss of reproductive and productive control of his wife” (Wilson & Daly, 1998, p. 201).”