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          Interpersonal conflicts are engendered by interactions among individuals whose psyches were designed by natural and sexual selection to make them effective competitors and effective nepotists. These considerations suggest numerous testable hypotheses about such matters as who is likely to kill whom, and how the demography of homicide perpetration and victimization is likely to vary among victim-killer relationships.


Daly M, Wilson M  (2003) Evolutionary psychology of lethal interpersonal violence.  Pp. 709-734 in W Heitmeyer & J Hagan, (eds) Handbook of research on violence.  New York: Westview.

Wilson M, Daly M  (2002) Infanticide.  In M. Pagel, ed.  Encyclopedia of Evolution, Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Daly M, Wilson M, Salmon CA, Hiraiwa-Hasegawa M, Hasegawa T (2001) Siblicide and Seniority. Homicide Studies 5: 30-45.

Daly M. & Wilson M. 2001.  Family violence: an evolutionary psychological perspective. Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law 8: 77-121.

Daly M, Wilson M (2001) Risk-taking, Intrasexual Competition, and Homicide. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 47: 1-36.

Daly M, Wilson M, Vasdev S (2001) Income inequality and homicide rates in Canada and the United States. Canadian Journal of Criminology 43: 219-236.

Daly M & Wilson M (2001) Infanticide.  Pp. 320-322 in L. Balter, Ed. Parenthood in America: an encyclopedia.  Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO.

Daly M, Wilson M (1999) An evolutionary psychological perspective on homicide. In D. Smith & M. Zahn, eds. Homicide Studies: A Sourcebook of Social Research, p. 58-71.

Wilson M, Daly M (1999) Spatial-Temporal Clustering of Chicago Homicides Proceedings of the Homicide Research Working Group Meetings, 1997 and 1998. Washington DC:NIJ, Pp 160-163.

Daly M, Wilson MI (1998) The evolutionary social psychology of family violence. Pp. 431-456 in C Crawford & D Krebs, eds., Handbook of evolutionary psychology: ideas, issues and applications. Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum.
 
Wilson M, Daly M (1998) Sexual rivalry and sexual conflict: recurring themes in fatal conflicts. Theoretical Criminology.vol. 2(3):291-310.

Daly M, Wilson M (1998) Homicide. Pp. 240-241 in T.J. Barfield, Ed. Dictionary of Anthropology Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Wilson M, Daly M (1998) Infanticide. Pp. 261-262. In ibid.

Wilson M, Daly M (1998) Lethal and nonlethal violence against wives and the evolutionary psychology of male sexual proprietariness. Pp. 199-230, in RE Dobash & RP Dobash, eds., Violence Against Women: International and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.

Daly M, Wiseman KA, Wilson MI (1997) Women with children sired by previous partners incur excess risk of uxoricide. Homicide Studies 1: 61-71.

Wilson MI, Daly M (1997) Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods. British Medical Journal 314: 1271-1274.

Kehr N, Daly M, Wilson M (1997) Homicide in Canada: Perception and Reality. Proceedingsof the 4th Annual Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group. Washington DC:NIJ.

Wilson M, Daly M (1997) Familicide: uxoricide plus filicide? Proceedings of the 4th annual symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group. Washington DC:NIJ.

Daly M, Wilson M (1997) Crime and conflict: homicide in evolutionary psychological perspective. Crime and Justice 22: 251-300.

Daly M, Wilson M (1996) Evolutionary Psychology of Homicide. Demos 39-45.

Daly M (1996) Evolutionary adaptationism: another biological approach to criminal and antisocial behaviour. Pp. 183-195 in GR Bock & JA Goode, eds., Genetics of criminal and antisocial behaviour. (CIBA Foundation Symposium # 194.) Chichester: Wiley.

Wilson M, Daly M, Daniele A (1995) Familicide: the killing of spouse and children. Aggressive Behavior 21: 275-291.

Wilson MI, Johnson H, Daly M (1995) Lethal and nonlethal violence against wives. Canadian Journal of Criminology 37: 331-361.

Wilson MI, Daly M (1994) The psychology of parenting in evolutionary perspective and the case of human filicide. Pp. 73-104 in S Parmigiami & FS vom Saal, eds., Infanticide and parental care. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Daly M, Wilson MI (1994) Some differential attributes of lethal assaults on small children by stepfathers versus genetic fathers. Ethology & Sociobiology 15: 207-217.

Daly M, Wilson MI (1993) The evolutionary psychology of male violence. Pp. 253-288 in J. Archer, ed., Male violence. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.

Wilson M, Daly M (1993) An evolutionary psychological perspective on male sexual proprietariness and violence against wives. Violence & Victims 8: 271-294. Reprinted in R.B. Ruback & N.A. Weiner, eds. (1995) Interpersonal Violent Behaviors. Social and Cultural Aspects. New York: Springer Publishing

Wilson M, Daly M (1993) Spousal homicide risk and estrangement. Violence & Victims 8: 3-16.

Wilson MI, Daly M, (1992) Who kills whom in spouse killings? On the exceptional sex ratio of spousal homicides in the United States. Criminology 30: 189-215.