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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Crader, Diana C.,; Freeman, Leslie G.,; Gould, Richard A.,; Harako, Reizo,; Harding, Robert S. Ο.,; Hayden, Brian,; Hladik, Claude-Marcel,; Isaac, Glynn Ll.,; Klein, Richard G.,; Mann, Alan Ε.,; Silberbauer, George,; Strum, Shirley C.,; Teleki, Geza,; Webster, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Harding, Robert S. O.,; Teleki, Geza,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1981]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (674 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887465; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/hard92188
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Geza Teleki, Robert S. O. Harding.

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