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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].

Publication Info. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2009]
©2009

Item Status

Edition Expanded ed.
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 357 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Anthropology online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-345) and index.
Awards Winner of the 2006 W.W. Howells Award
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Primates -- Behavior.
Primates -- Behavior.
Predation (Biology)
Predation (Biology)
Primates -- Evolution.
Primates -- Evolution.
Human evolution.
Human evolution.
Evolution.
Hominidae.
Predatory Behavior.
Primates.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Sussman, Robert W., 1941- author.
Other Form: Print version: Hart, Donna. Man the hunted. Expanded ed. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, ©2009 9780813339368 0813339367 (OCoLC)191926641
ISBN 9780786725946 (electronic book)
078672594X (electronic book)
9780813344034
0813344034