Man the hunted: Primates, predators, and human evolution

By Ricardo Gil-da-Costa. 2005

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/47a16a75c8e1e4a143fe2391b503ab43a52a15bb

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In Cultural Studies

1. R. Dunn
2. J. Atkinson
3. Anthony A. Volk
4. W. Ripple
5. B. Van Valkenburgh

In Developmental Biology

1. Jennifer E. Smith
2. R. Dunn
3. Kay E. Holekamp
4. J. Atkinson
5. Anthony A. Volk
6. W. Ripple
7. B. Van Valkenburgh

In Molecular Biology

1. R. Dunn
2. J. Atkinson
3. Anthony A. Volk
4. W. Ripple
5. B. Van Valkenburgh

Citations in the corpus

• Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation (2013, background): “Additionally, there are numerous, well-documented, predator-induced severe group size declines for most primate species that have been studied in detail for a sufficient period of time (Hill & Dunbar, 1998; Hart & Sussman, 2005), an event that has never been documented in any human population.”
• Making Wildlife Viewable: Habituation and Attraction (2009, unknown): “Th e former strategy relies on early detection of the predator—“seeing it before it sees them” (Hart and Sussman, 2005, p. 181)—which allows the animals to fl ee preemptively.”
• Predation on Primates: A Biogeographical Analysis (2007, unknown): “…that the role of predation in primate evolution is minimal (Raemakers & Chivers, 1980; Wrangham, 1980; Cheney & Wrangham, 1987) to theories that predation is a powerful force in shaping social patterns (van Schaik, 1983; Terborgh & Janson, 1986; Dunbar, 1988; Hart, 2000; Hart & Sussman, 2005).”
• Evolution of Cooperation among Mammalian Carnivores and Its Relevance to Hominin Evolution (2012, background): “For instance, as is the case for many mammalian carnivores (reviewed by Palomares and Caro 1999), early hominins also were likely hunted or otherwise killed by carnivores (Hart and Sussman 2009).”
• The Landscape of Fear: Ecological Implications of Being Afraid~!2009-09-09~!2009-11-16~!2010-02-02~! (2010, unknown): “For emerging primitive humans, fear of known dangers from mega predators drove them to seek refuge in caves and trees (Hart and Sussman 2005).”
• Global Mapping of Ecosystem Disservices: The Unspoken Reality that Nature Sometimes Kills us (2010, background): “We were eaten in great numbers by predators (Hart & Sussman 2009) and killed in even greater numbers by pathogens (Magner 2009).”
• Linking Top-Down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions (2010, background): “Another possible advantage is that North American carnivores were unlikely to recognize humans as prey at the time people arrived on the continent in the late Pleistocene because most animals had evolved without humans (Hart and Sussman 2005).”