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Apes. --- Chimpanzees. --- Macaques. --- Names. --- Orangutans. --- Bornean orangutan. --- Zoology. --- Human beings.

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"What makes humans the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. In this provocative book, Craig Stanford presents an intriguing alternative to this puzzling question -- an alternative grounded in recent, pathbreaking scientific observation. According to Stanford, what made humans unique was meat -- specifically, the hunting and sharing of meat. Based on new insights into the behavior of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing hunting and gathering societies, Stanford shows the remarkable role that meat has played in these societies. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Hunting and gathering societies. --- Human evolution. --- Apes --- Food. --- Behavior. --- Adaptations. --- Alliance formation. --- Ambush hunting. --- Australopithecines. --- Bailey, Robert. --- Bipedalism. --- Boesch, Christophe. --- Bone marrow. --- Brain size. --- Bunn, Henry. --- Calories from meat. --- Capuchins. --- Chimpanzee intelligence. --- Cooperative hunting. --- DNA sequences. --- Darwinian theory of mind. --- Deception. --- Division of spoils. --- Egalitarianism. --- Evolution of hierarchy. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- False alarm calls. --- Female chimpanzees. --- Feminist anthropology. --- Foragers. --- Gorilla society. --- Great ape societies. --- Hadza of northern Tanzania. --- Hominid ancestors. --- Howling monkeys. --- Hyenas. --- Jerison, Harry. --- Kaplan, Hillard. --- Knuckle walking. --- Kung San of Kalahari desert. --- Lancaster, Chet. --- Lovejoy, Owen. --- Machiavellian intelligence. --- Man the Meat-possessor. --- Natural selection. --- Neandertals. --- Omnivores. --- Ovulation. --- Patriarchal societies. --- Pleiotropic effects. --- Prosimians. --- Rape among orangutans. --- Scavengers. --- Social environment. --- Taphonomy. --- infanticide among gorillas.