Title: The hunting apes : meat eating and the origins of human behavior /
Authors: Stanford, Craig B. 1956-
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Meat; Food Preferences; Biological Evolution; Hominidae psychology; Apes Behavior; Apes Food.; Human evolution.; Hunting and gathering societies.
Abstract: Stanford examines great ape behavior and hunter-gatherer societies to support his hyothisis that the hunting, eating and sharing of meat drove human evolution.
Contents: Ch. 1. The Indelible Stamp -- Ch. 2. Man the Hunter and Other Stories -- Ch. 3. Ape Nature -- Ch. 4. The View from the Pliocene -- Ch. 5. The Hunting People -- Ch. 6. The Ghost in the Gorilla -- Ch. 7. Meat's Patriarchy.