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Man the hunted : primates, predators, and human evolution / Donna Hart, Robert W. Sussman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Donna, author.
- Sussman, Robert W., 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primates--Behavior.
- Primates.
- Predation (Biology).
- Primates--Evolution.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 357 pages) : illustrations, map
- Edition:
- Expanded ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, CO : Westview Press ; Philadelphia, PA : Perseus Books Group [distributor], c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds. The authors' own studies of predators on monkeys and apes are supplemented here with the observations of naturalists in the field, and with revealing interpretations of the fossil record. Eyewitness accounts of the "man the hunted" drama being played out even now give vivid evidence of its prehistoric significance." "This provocative view of human evolution suggests that the countless adaptations, from larger brains to speech, that have allowed our species to survive stem from a considerably more vulnerable position on the food chain than we might like to imagine. The myth of early humans as fearless hunters dominating the earth obscures our origins as just one of many species that had to be cautious, had to depend on other group members, had to communicate danger, and had to come to terms with being merely one cog in the complex cycle of life."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Foreword to the First Edition / Ian Tattersall
- Preface to the Expanded Paperback Edition
- 1 JUST ANOTHER ITEM ON THE MENU
- Fossil Evidence and Living Primates
- Predation and Primate Studies
- An Accurate Appraisal of Predation
- 2 DEBUNKING "MAN THE HUNTER"
- Will the First Hominid Please Stand Up?
- A Messy Bush
- Wanderlust
- Man the Hunter?
- Man the Dancer!
- We Were Not "Cat Food"!
- 3 WHO'S EATING WHOM?
- A Tale of Two Families
- The Prey Flee, the Predator Pursues
- Who Are These Primate Prey?
- The Dichotomy about Death
- The James Carville Approach
- Predation Risk versus Predation Rate
- Who Was Eating Our Hominid Ancestors?
- 4 LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY!
- Choose Your Weapon
- The Long and Winding Road from South Africa to Georgia
- Killing Machines
- Before the Age of Ulcers
- Perfect Primate Predators
- Give Us the Bear Facts
- 5 COURSING HYENAS AND HUNGRY DOGS
- Wolves at the Door
- No Laughing Matter
- Howls in the Prehistoric Night
- Leaders of the Pack
- 6 MISSIONARY POSITION
- The Serpentine Route
- Breathing Fire: The Komodo Dragon
- My, What Big Teeth You Have!
- On Top of Everything Else, Sharks, Too?
- 7 TERROR FROM THE SKY
- Featherweights and Talon Tips
- Crested Viragos
- An Alfred Hitchcock Moment
- The Record of Giant Raptors
- The Taung Child Tells Its Tale
- Running Hawks, Hungry Toucans, and Giant Owls
- 8 WE WEREN'T JUST WAITING AROUND TO BE EATEN!
- Heavyweight Champions
- Why Hermits Seem Odd
- We Saw . . . Food. We Came . . . Down from the Trees.We Conquered . . . Gravity
- On the Path to Einstein
- Daytime Talk Shows
- Making a Last Stand: Counterattack and Chutzpah
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- 9 GENTLE SAVAGE OR BLOODTHIRSTY BRUTE?
- The Hunting Myth and Sociobiology
- Chimpanzee and Human Males as Demonic Killers
- Chimpanzee Aggression
- Getting Out of Our Genes
- The Other 50%
- 10 MAN THE HUNTED
- Sink Your Teeth into This!
- Painting the Family Portrait
- Habitat for Humanity
- Macaques Us?
- Put It All Together and What Do You Have?
- Man the Hunted
- The Oldest Story
- 11 THE LAST WORD
- Carnivore Crimes: More about Bears, Big Cats, and Hyenas
- Python Pestilence and Eagle Escapades
- Man the Cannibal
- Cut Marks, Tooth Marks, and Question Marks
- Man the Sneaky Meat Thief
- Man the Peace-Loving Hippie?
- Conventional Wisdom as Science
- Really Our Last Words
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-345) and index.
- Winner of the 2006 W.W. Howells Award.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780429978715
- 0429978715
- 9780429967634
- 0429967632
- 9780429499081
- 0429499086
- 9780786725946
- 078672594X
- OCLC:
- 361888134
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