Physical
AvailableLanguage | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-8133-3936-7 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0813339368 |
No of pages | 312 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Basic Books |
Published Date | 01 Mar 2005 |
Robert Wald Sussman was Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Robert Sussman, 74, was born July 4th, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, to Louis and Helen Sussman. He passed away peacefully on June 8th, 2016 at his home in Creve Coeur, MO, with is wife, Linda, and two daughters, Katya and Diana, after suffering from multiple strokes.
“Bob was a remarkable scholar, phenomenal teacher and mentor, and dedicated servant to the university and to the academic community,” said T.R. Kidder, professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences.
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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 primates, 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.