Rough and tumble: aggression, hunting, and human evolution
Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who-in comparison t…
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- Full title :Rough and tumble : aggression, hunting, and human evolution / Travis Rayne Pickering.
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Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who-in comparison to their large, potentially dangerous prey-were small, weak, and slow-footed. Technology that evolved.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
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- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0520955129, 9780520955127
- oclc:ocn835370638
- LC Classification:GN799.H84
- Dewey Decimal:599.9
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Man among Apes; 2. Prehistoric Bloodsport; 3. Tamping the Simian Urge; 4. Conceiving Our Past; 5. Death from Above; Coda; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
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