Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting in Early Hominids
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Description: An essay by James Q. Jacobs discussing when our earliest human ancestors first began to scavenge for meat and hunt. Includes references.
Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting Scavenging and Hunting in Early Hominids. When did our earliest human ancestors first begin to scavenge for meat and first begin to hunt? This is a difficult question to answer with certainty. We cannot ask them, and their few surviving fossils offer clues that are at best inferences. The question must be approached using very limited data. Nonetheless, by using several approaches to the question, a very plausible answer seems within grasp. I hypothesize that both scavenging and hunting coincided with the emergence of the genus
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| Page title: | Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting |
| Keywords: | scavenging, hunting, hominids, evolution, adaptation, paleoecology, paleoclimate, paleoarchaeology, paleoanthropology, hominid evolution, homo, primates, hominidae, James Q. Jacobs, essays |
| Description: | When did our earliest human ancestors first begin to scavenge for meat and first begin to hunt? This is a difficult question to answer |
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