The adaptive value of tool-aided defense against wild animal attacks

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 633-638

  Crabb, Peter B ^a   Elizaga, Andrew ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Naturnal selection; Predator prey; Tool use; Weapons

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVOR; TOOL USE; WILD ANIMAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF EFFICACY; SURVIVORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56849104681     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20273     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Barrett HC. 2005. Adaptations to predators and prey. In: Buss DM (ed). The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Wiley , pp 200-223.
2. Borgerhoff-Mulder M. 2007. On the utility, not the necessity, of tracking current fitness. In: Gangestad S, Simpson JA (eds). The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. New York: Guilford Press, pp 78-85.
3. Buss DM, Duntley JD. 2006. The evolution of aggression. In: Schaller M, Simpson JA, Kenrick DT (eds). Evolution and Social Psychology. New York: Academic Press, pp 261-285.
4. Crabb PB. 2000. The material culture of homicidal fantasies. Aggressive Behav 26:225-234.
5. Crabb PB. 2005. The material culture of suicidal fantasies. J Psychol 139:211-220.
6. Darwin C. 1981/1871. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
7. Endler J. 1991. Interactions between predators and prey. In: Krebs J, Davis N (eds). Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach, 3rd edition. New York: Blackwell, pp 169-196.
8. Eximel I. 2006. Top secret animal attack files. Retrieved February 7-22, 2006, from http://attacks.igorilla.com.
9. Goodall J. 1986. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
10. Hart D, Sussman RW. 2005. Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution. New York: Westview Press.
11. Huesmann LR. 1998. The role of social information processing and cognitive schema in the acquisition and maintenance of habitual aggressive behavior. In: Geen RG, Donnerstein E (eds). Human Aggression: Theories, Research and Implications for Policy. New York: Academic Press, pp 73-109.
12. Irons W. 1998. Adaptively relevant environments versus the environ-ment of evolutionary adaptedness. Evol Anthropol 6:194-204.
13. Johnson-Frey SH. 2003. What's so special about tool use? Neuron 39:201-204.
14. Johnson-Frey SH. 2004. The neural bases of complex tool use in humans. Trends Cogn Sci 8:71-78.
15. Kenrick DT, Sheets V. 1993. Homicidal, fantasies. Ethol Sociobiol. 14:231-246.
16. Lancaster JB. 1968. On the evolution of tool-using behavior. Am Anthropol 70:56-66.
17. Lewis JW. 2006. Cortical networks related to human use of tools. Neuroscientist 12:211-231.
18. Newsbank. 2007. America's newspapers. Retrieved November 26, 2006, through February 15, 2007, from http://infoweb.news-bank.com
19. Povinelli DJ. 2000. Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works. New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Richerson PJ, Boyd R. 2005. Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
21. Rosenthal R, Rosnow RL. 1985. Contrast Analysis: Focused Comparisons in the Analysis of Variance. New York: Cambridge University Press.
22. Schick KD, Toth N. 1993. Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology. New York: Simon & Schuster.
23. Treves A, Naughton-Treves L. 1999. Risk and opportunity for humans coexisting with large carnivores. J Hum Evol 36: 275-282.
24. Washburn SL. 1959. Speculations on the interrelations of the history of tools and biological evolution. Hum Biol 31:21-31, Washburn SL, Howell FC. 1960. Human evolution and culture. In: Tax S (ed). Evolution After Darwin, Vol. 2. The Evolution of Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp 33-56.