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Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution - Couverture rigide

Pickering, Travis

 
9780520274006: Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution
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ISBN 10 : 0520274008 ISBN 13 : 9780520274006
Editeur : University of California Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Travis Rayne Pickering is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He directs the multidisciplinary Swartkrans Paleoanthropological Research Project and is a co-director of the Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project. He is the co-founder and coeditor of the Journal of Taphonomy and the coeditor of the book Breathing Life into Fossils.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520274008
ISBN 13 
9780520274006
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
224
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