The transition to foraging for dense and predictable resources and its impact on the evolution of modern humans

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1698, 2016, Pages

  Marean, Curtis W ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Human origins; Hunter gatherer; Territoriality; Theory of economic defendability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUNTER-GATHERER; RESOURCE USE; SOCIAL THEORY; TERRITORIALITY;

AFRICA;

ADAPTATION; ARCHEOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84974705020     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0239     Document Type: Article

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