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The terms “meat-eating” and “hunting” are generally used in anthropology in the same sense as “carnivory” and “predation” are used in zoology. This book symbolizes the importance that anthropologists give to hunting as a behavioral adaptation in human evolution. Meat-eating per se seems to provoke less controversy in discussions about early humans than whether the meat was acquired by hunting or scavenging.
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Behrensmeyer, A.K. (1987). Taphonomy and Hunting. In: Nitecki, M.H., Nitecki, D.V. (eds) The Evolution of Human Hunting. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8833-3_10
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