Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... prey . The only safety was in numbers . So long as predacity involved only attack , or the pursuit of small or very young animals , cooperation was not a necessity . It was indispensable , however , for self - defence and for ...
... prey . The only safety was in numbers . So long as predacity involved only attack , or the pursuit of small or very young animals , cooperation was not a necessity . It was indispensable , however , for self - defence and for ...
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... prey in the same locality . Though such evidence is not conclusive hunting does appear to become more selective , and by the time Homo sapiens appears a single type of game satisfies all the population's needs . Even the animal kingdom ...
... prey in the same locality . Though such evidence is not conclusive hunting does appear to become more selective , and by the time Homo sapiens appears a single type of game satisfies all the population's needs . Even the animal kingdom ...
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... prey , but this prey had a vital or rather a human significance for them ; their entire biological , psychological and social constitution depended on it . The opponents may have varied but such conflicts have always existed . They ...
... prey , but this prey had a vital or rather a human significance for them ; their entire biological , psychological and social constitution depended on it . The opponents may have varied but such conflicts have always existed . They ...
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Early Primates | 1 |
Societies Without Speech | 9 |
The Demands of Social Life | 15 |
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activities adaptation adolescents adult males affiliation societies alliances animal societies Année sociologique anthropoid aptitudes Australopithecus baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism cerebral cortex chimpanzees clan Claude Lévi-Strauss constitute created culture depends differentiation distinct division dominant male ecological emergence environment established Ethologists evolution evolutionary existence exogamy exploited fact foraging function gathering genetic habitat hierarchy hominids Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship labour laws less Lévi-Strauss living male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage monkeys monosexual mother mutations mutual natural selection non-reproductive objects observed pattern permanent phenomenon physical and anatomical population predacity prey primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals sexes sexual sexual reproduction significance skills social organization social structure species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory tool-making Trobriand Islands unit women young