The hunting apes : meat eating and the origins of human behavior / Craig B. Stanford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton), 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apes--Behavior.

Apes.

Apes--Food.

Human evolution.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

2. print. and 1. pbk. print.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [1999]

Summary:

"What makes humans 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. In this provocative book, Craig Stanford presents an intriguing alternative to this puzzling question -- an alternative grounded in recent, pathbreaking scientific observation. According to Stanford, what made humans unique was meat -- specifically, the hunting and sharing of meat. Based on new insights into the behavior of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing hunting and gathering societies, Stanford shows the remarkable role that meat has played in these societies. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 The Indelible Stamp

2 Man the Hunter and Other Stories

3 Ape Nature

4 The View from the Pliocene

5 The Hunting People

6 The Ghost in the Gorilla

7 Meat's Patriarchy

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Literaturverz. S. [229] - 245.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-245) and index.

ISBN:

9780691088884

0691088888

OCLC:

1273306090