BIOLOGY 1M03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Olduvai Gorge, Termite, Taphonomy
8 Sep 2014
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Chapter 12: oldowan toolmakers and the origin of human life. May also need to be extracted or processed before consumption. 60% humans depend on hard-to-learn skills to acquire food contemporary foraging peoples depend on extracted and hunted foods to a much greater extent than chimpanzees do unlike other predators, humans must learn a very diverse set of hunting skills. Most large mammalian predators use one of two methods: wait in ambush, or combine a stealthy approach with fast pursuit efficient extraction of resources requires considerable skill. 1. hard-to-learn techniques reward specialization takes a long time to be good hunter, and it takes a long time to learn how to dig tubers because child care is more compatible with gathering than with. 3 concentrations of bones were not due to deaths of a large number of animals at one spot taphonomic analyses suggest that hominins were active at a number of the.
