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Foreword to the First Edition | p. ix |
Preface to the Expanded Paperback Edition | p. xv |
Just Another Item on the Menu | p. 1 |
Fossil Evidence and Living Primates | p. 5 |
Predation and Primate Studies | p. 9 |
An Accurate Appraisal of Predation | p. 9 |
Debunking "Man the Hunter" | p. 11 |
Will the First Hominid Please Stand Up? | p. 13 |
A Messy Bush | p. 21 |
Wanderlust | p. 22 |
Man the Hunter? | p. 23 |
Man the Dancer! | p. 28 |
We Were Not "Cat Food"! | p. 30 |
Who's Eating Whom? | p. 33 |
A Tale of Two Families | p. 34 |
The Prey Flee, the Predator Pursues | p. 38 |
Who Are These Primate Prey? | p. 41 |
The Dichotomy about Death | p. 45 |
The James Carville Approach | p. 46 |
Predation Risk versus Predation Rate | p. 52 |
Who Was Eating Our Hominid Ancestors? | p. 55 |
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! | p. 57 |
Choose Your Weapon | p. 63 |
The Long and Winding Road from South Africa to Georgia | p. 70 |
Killing Machines | p. 76 |
Before the Age of Ulcers | p. 77 |
Perfect Primate Predators | p. 80 |
Give Us the Bear Facts | p. 84 |
Coursing Hyenas and Hungry Dogs | p. 89 |
Wolves at the Door | p. 90 |
No Laughing Matter | p. 95 |
Howls in the Prehistoric Night | p. 97 |
Leaders of the Pack | p. 104 |
Missionary Position | p. 111 |
The Serpentine Route | p. 112 |
Breathing Fire: The Komodo Dragon | p. 124 |
My, What Big Teeth You Have! | p. 127 |
On Top of Everything Else, Sharks, Too? | p. 133 |
Terror from the Sky | p. 135 |
Featherweights and Talon Tips | p. 138 |
Crested Viragos | p. 141 |
An Alfred Hitchcock Moment | p. 147 |
The Record of Giant Raptors | p. 149 |
The Taung Child Tells Its Tale | p. 151 |
Running Hawks, Hungry Toucans, and Giant Owls | p. 155 |
We Weren't Just Waiting Around to Be Eaten! | p. 161 |
Heavyweight Champions | p. 166 |
Why Hermits Seem Odd | p. 170 |
We Saw ... Food. We Came ... Down from the Trees. We Conquered ... Gravity | p. 174 |
On the Path to Einstein | p. 180 |
Daytime Talk Shows | p. 182 |
Making a Last Stand: Counterattack and Chutzpah | p. 186 |
Weapons of Mass Destruction | p. 189 |
Gentle Savage or Bloodthirsty Brute? | p. 191 |
The Hunting Myth and Sociobiology | p. 194 |
Chimpanzee and Human Males as Demonic Killers | p. 201 |
Chimpanzee Aggression | p. 207 |
Getting Out of Our Genes | p. 211 |
The Other 50% | p. 213 |
Man the Hunted | p. 219 |
Sink Your Teeth into This! | p. 226 |
Painting the Family Portrait | p. 231 |
Habitat for Humanity | p. 235 |
Macaques [characters not reproducible] Us? | p. 239 |
Put It All Together and What Do You Have? | p. 242 |
Man the Hunted | p. 245 |
The Oldest Story | p. 248 |
The Last Word | p. 251 |
Carnivore Crimes: More about Bears, Big Cats, and Hyenas | p. 257 |
Python Pestilence and Eagle Escapades | p. 262 |
Man the Cannibal | p. 265 |
Cut Marks, Tooth Marks, and Question Marks | p. 268 |
Man the Sneaky Meat Thief | p. 271 |
Man the Peace-Loving Hippie? | p. 275 |
Conventional Wisdom as Science | p. 283 |
Really Our Last Words | p. 284 |
Acknowledgments | p. 287 |
Notes | p. 289 |
Bibliography | p. 311 |
Index | p. 347 |
About the Authors | p. 359 |
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