The invaders : how humans and their dogs drove Neanderthals to extinction / Pat Shipman.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674425385
- 0674425383
- 0674425405
- 9780674425408
- 0674736761
- 9780674736764
- Der Hund
- Human beings -- Origin
- Human beings -- Migrations
- Human evolution
- Neanderthals
- Dogs -- Evolution
- Human-animal relationships -- History
- Predation (Biology)
- Homme -- Origines
- Homme -- Migrations
- Homme -- Évolution
- Homme de Néanderthal
- Chiens -- Évolution
- Relations homme-animal -- Histoire
- Prédation (Biologie)
- Homo neanderthalensis (extinct species)
- NATURE -- Fossils
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution
- Human-animal relationships
- Human beings -- Migrations
- Human beings -- Origin
- Human evolution
- Neanderthals
- Predation (Biology)
- Neandertaler
- Mensch
- Evolution
- Human beings -- Origin
- Human beings -- Migrations
- Human evolution
- Neanderthals
- Dogs -- Evolution
- Human-animal relationships -- History
- Predation (Biology)
- 569.9 23
- GN286 .S55 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from the digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2015).
And he is us -- Here we come, ready or not -- Time is of the essence -- Who wins in an invasion? -- How do you know that? -- What's for dinner? -- What does an invasion look like? -- Going, going, gone -- Guess who else is coming for dinner? -- Bearing up under competition pressure -- The Jagger principle -- Dogged -- Why dogs? -- When is a wolf not a wolf? -- What happened and why.
In English.
Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals--a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.
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