One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century. Dart was ...
The fossil record of predation : an overview of analytical methods / Michal Kowalewski -- Analyses of coprolites produced by carnivorous vertebrates / Karen Chin -- Archaeological methods for ...
Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...
Over millions of years, humans and their ancestors evolved alongside a host of terrifying predators—some so formidable, their bones still tell tales of ancient death matches. While today we view ...
Potts, Richard. 2003. "Early Human Predation." In Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Kelley, P., Kowalewski, M., and Hansen, T., editors. 359–376 ...
One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...