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Man The Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution
Man The Hunted Primates Predators and Human Evolution Author:Donna Hart, Robert W. Sussman Demonstrates that the earliest humans evolved not as hunters but as prey species, based on evidence from fossil and living primates Although "Man the Hunter" is a popular description of our ancestry, the central importance of hunting is firmly fixed only in the archeological record of relatively recent human history. Man the Hunted argues that p... more »rimates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved not as hunters but as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds of prey. Eyewitness accounts, data collected by the authors, and the published reports of naturalists establish the astonishing extent to which living monkeys, lemurs, apes, and even humans fall victim to a wide variety of predators, some of which even specialize in the consumption of primates. Additionally, the fossil record demonstrates that primates have been prey for millions of years, a fact that necessarily shaped the evolution of our earliest ancestors in body and behavior. Skillfully combining information from a number of lines of evidence, Man the Hunted casts an entirely new light on the natural history of primates and the evolution of fossil and modern humans.« less
An attempt to show that early man was not a hunter but rather the hunted. Unfortunately It resorts to modern man and animals and very limited on fossil evidence. The result ios lots of speculation, which may or may not bear on the result.