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Rough and tumble [[electronic resource] ] : aggression, hunting, and human evolution / / Travis Rayne Pickering



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Autore: Pickering Travis Rayne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rough and tumble [[electronic resource] ] : aggression, hunting, and human evolution / / Travis Rayne Pickering Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
Disciplina: 599.9
Soggetto topico: Hunting, Prehistoric
Hunting and gathering societies
Fossil hominids
Human evolution
Social evolution
Soggetto non controllato: aggression
aggressive attack
ancestors
anthropology
ape men
archaeological evidence
archaeological record
archaeology
archeology
biology
dark
diet and evolution
early human hunters
emotional detachment
engaging
evolution
historical
history
hopeless tactic
human aggressiveness
human evolution
human hunters
human predation
hunter gatherers
hunting
intense
large game hunters
life sciences
man versus nature
man vs nature
popular science
proto humans
social science
wooden spears
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Man among Apes -- 2. Prehistoric Bloodsport -- 3. Tamping the Simian Urge -- 4. Conceiving Our Past -- 5. Death from Above -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who-in comparison to their large, potentially dangerous prey-were small, weak, and slow-footed. Technology that evolved from wooden spears to stone-tipped spears and ultimately to the bow and arrow increased the distance between predator and prey and facilitated an emotional detachment that allowed hunters to stalk and kill large game. Based on studies of humans and of other primates, as well as on fossil and archaeological evidence, Rough and Tumble offers a new perspective on human evolution by decoupling ideas of aggression and predation to build a more realistic understanding of what it is to be human.
Titolo autorizzato: Rough and tumble  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95512-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786146503321
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