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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-08888-4
- EAN: 9780691088884
- Produktnummer: 8434567
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.8 cm 298 g
- Abbildungen: 3 tables 3 line illus. 10 halftones
- Gewicht: 298
Über den Autor
Craig B. Stanford, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California, has conducted field studies of apes and monkeys in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He is the author of the recent book Chimpanzee and Red Colobus.
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