The Invaders : How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction / Pat Shipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shipman, Pat, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Origin.

Human beings.

Human beings--Migrations.

Human evolution.

Neanderthals.

Dogs--Evolution.

Dogs.

Human-animal relationships--History.

Human-animal relationships.

Predation (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals—a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

1. And He Is Us

2. Here We Come, Ready or Not

3. Time Is of the Essence

4. Who Wins in an Invasion?

5. How Do You Know What You Th ink You Know?

6. What’s for Dinner?

7. What Does an Invasion Look Like?

8. Going, Going, Gone . . .

9. Guess Who Else Is Coming to Dinner?

10. Bearing Up under Competition Pressure

11. Th e Jagger Principle

12. Dogged

13. Why Dogs?

14. When Is a Wolf Not a Wolf ?

15. What Happened and Why

Notes

Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674425408

0674425405

9780674425385

0674425383

OCLC:

898113099