Meat-Eating and Human EvolutionCraig B. Stanford, Henry T. Bunn Oxford University Press, 14 jun 2001 - 384 pagina's When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unknown. After stone tools appear in the fossil record it seems clear that meat was eaten in increasing quantities, but whether it was obtained through hunting or scavenging remains a topic of intense debate. This book takes a novel and strongly interdisciplinary approach to the role of meat in the early hominid diet, inviting well-known researchers who study the human fossil record, modern hunter-gatherers, and nonhuman primates to contribute chapters to a volume that integrates these three perspectives. Stanford's research has been on the ecology of hunting by wild chimpanzees. Bunn is an archaeologist who has worked on both the fossil record and modern foraging people. This will be a reconsideration of the role of hunting, scavenging, and the uses of meat in light of recent data and modern evolutionary theory. There is currently no other book, nor has there ever been, that occupies the niche this book will create for itself. |
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MeatEating and the Fossil Record | 11 |
Taphonomy of the Swartkrans Hominid Postcrania and Its Bearing | 33 |
Modeling the Edible Landscape | 73 |
A Review of Past | 101 |
A Comparison of Social MeatForaging by Chimpanzees | 122 |
Insights from Neotropical | 141 |
Primate Insectivory and Early Human Diet | 160 |
MeatEating by the Fourth African Ape | 179 |
An Archaeological Case | 237 |
Henry Bunn American Section Museum of Archaeology | 259 |
Mutualistic Hunting | 261 |
Comparative Evidence Models | 279 |
The Evolutionary Consequences of Increased Carnivory | 305 |
Neonate Body Size and Hominid Carnivory | 332 |
Research Trajectories on Hominid MeatEating | 350 |
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Meat-eating & Human Evolution Craig Britton Stanford,Henry T. Bunn,Henry Thomas Bunn Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2001 |
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