BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Taphonomy, Awash River, Cannibalism
11 Aug 2018
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Hunting: hunting is the practice of pursuing living things for food, recreation, trade, pest control, etc, hunting of other primates has been visually documented in the common chimp and more recently in one population of bonobos. Baboons (an owm) are known to hunt vervet monkeys and other mammals and birds. Early hominin behaviour: unlike orangutans, early hominins probably lived in multi-male, multi-female groups. Food sharing may have been important to early hominins (especially mother-offspring, as in chimpanzees). Chimps and humans expend different degrees of effort on different types of foraging. Complex foraging: hunting and extractive foraging lead to: Same is true of extraction of tubers by women of hiwi tribe of venezuela. Men usually take primary responsibility for hunting: women usually take primary responsibility for extraction (more compatible with child care) Men contribute substantially to caloric intake in modern hunter gather societies. Complex foraging methods could have contributed to (or benefited from) the evolution of:
