Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution - Tapa dura

Hart, Donna; Sussman, Robert Wald

 
9780813339368: Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution
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ISBN 10: 0813339367 ISBN 13: 9780813339368
Editorial: Westview Press Inc, 2005

Sinopsis

This astonishing new interpretation of fossil and living primates reveals that humans evolved not as hunters, but as hunted prey Although 'Man the Hunter' is a popular description of our ancestry, the central importance of hunting is firmly fixed only in the archaeological record of relatively recent human history. Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved not as hunters but as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds of prey. Eyewitness accounts, data collected by the authors, and the published reports of naturalists establish the astonishing extent to which living monkeys, lemurs, apes, and even humans fall victim to a wide variety of predators, some of which even specialize in the consumption of primates. Additionally, the fossil record demonstrates that primates have been prey for millions of years, a fact that necessarily shaped the evolution of our earliest ancestors in body and behaviour.

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Acerca del autor

Donna L. Hart is a longtime professional in wildlife conservation and teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St Louis. Robert Wald Sussman teaches at Washington University-St Louis and is recent editor of American Anthropologist.

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Editorial
Westview Press Inc
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813339367
ISBN 13 
9780813339368
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
352
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