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Author Hart, Donna.

Title Man the hunted : primates, predators, and human evolution / Donna Hart, Robert W. Sussman ; [foreword by Ian Tattersall]
Edition Expanded ed
Published Boulder, CO : Westview Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 357 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Anthropology online
Contents Just another item on the menu -- Debunking "man the hunter" -- Who's eating whom? -- Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! -- Coursing hyenas and hungry dogs -- Missionary position -- Terror from the sky -- We weren't just waiting around to be eaten! -- Gentle savage or bloodthirsty brute? -- Man the hunted -- The last word
Summary A provocative view of human evolution that contends early humans occupied a far more vulnerable position in the food chain than we like to imagine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-345) and index
Notes English
Winner of the 2006 W.W. Howells Award
Print version record
Subject Primates -- Behavior.
Predation (Biology)
Primates -- Evolution.
Human evolution.
Primates.
Evolution
Hominidae
Predatory Behavior
Primates
Primates (order)
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Primatology.
NATURE -- Animals -- Primates.
Primates
Human evolution
Predation (Biology)
Primates -- Behavior
Primates -- Evolution
Form Electronic book
Author Sussman, Robert W., 1941-
ISBN 9780786725946
078672594X
9780813344034
0813344034
9780429499081
0429499086
0429967632
9780429967634
0429978715
9780429978715