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Omnivorous Primates. Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution / ed. by Geza Teleki, Robert S. O. Harding.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1981]Copyright date: ©1981Description: 1 online resource (674 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231921886
  • 9780231887465
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diet and Human Evolution -- 3. To What Extent Were Early Hominids Carnivorous? An Archaeological Perspective -- 4. The Fat of the Land: Notes on Paleolithic Diet in Iberia -- 5. Later Stone Age Subsistence at Byeneskranskop Cave, South Africa -- 6. An Order of Omnivores: Nonhuman Primate Diets in the Wild -- 7. Diet and the Evolution of Feeding Strategies among Forest Primates -- 8. Processes and Products of Change: Baboon Predatory Behavior at Gilgil, Kenya -- 9. The Omnivorous Diet and Eclectic Feeding Habits of Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania -- 10. Subsistence and Ecological Adaptations of Modern Hunter/Gatherers -- 11. Comparative Ecology of Food-Sharing in Australia and Northwest California -- 12. Hunter/Gatherers of the Central Kalahari -- 13. The Cultural Ecology of Hunting Behavior among Mbuti Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, Zaire -- 14. Late Pleistocene Extinction and Human Predation: A Critical Overview -- References -- Index
Summary: Studies human behavior, such as hunting and gathering, as an evolving element which adapts in response to changing conditions.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diet and Human Evolution -- 3. To What Extent Were Early Hominids Carnivorous? An Archaeological Perspective -- 4. The Fat of the Land: Notes on Paleolithic Diet in Iberia -- 5. Later Stone Age Subsistence at Byeneskranskop Cave, South Africa -- 6. An Order of Omnivores: Nonhuman Primate Diets in the Wild -- 7. Diet and the Evolution of Feeding Strategies among Forest Primates -- 8. Processes and Products of Change: Baboon Predatory Behavior at Gilgil, Kenya -- 9. The Omnivorous Diet and Eclectic Feeding Habits of Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania -- 10. Subsistence and Ecological Adaptations of Modern Hunter/Gatherers -- 11. Comparative Ecology of Food-Sharing in Australia and Northwest California -- 12. Hunter/Gatherers of the Central Kalahari -- 13. The Cultural Ecology of Hunting Behavior among Mbuti Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, Zaire -- 14. Late Pleistocene Extinction and Human Predation: A Critical Overview -- References -- Index

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Studies human behavior, such as hunting and gathering, as an evolving element which adapts in response to changing conditions.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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