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.)

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

Table of 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