The Hunting Apes
Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior
What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capacity and led to humans' other distinctive characteristics, including advanced communication, tool use, and walking on two legs. Or was it the other way around? Did the challenges faced by early humans push the species toward communication, tool use, and walking and, in doing so, drive the evolutionary engine toward a large brain? In this provocative new book, Craig Stanford presents an intriguing…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-22208-0
- EAN: 9780691222080
- Produktnummer: 34788982
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'330 KB
- Abbildungen: 3 tables 3 line illus. 10 halftones
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Craig B. Stanford
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