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Are animals mentally stuck in the present, unable to think beyond the here and now, or are they mental time travelers, capable of planning ahead in time? And why should this matter to us? "Planning for the Future" provides a thorough conceptual clarification of the most important but ambiguously used concepts in the debate and differentiates between two types of planning. In analyzing several influential studies with birds and apes, the book concludes that there is indeed evidence for anticipatory planning in some animals, but not for strategic planning so far. In a chapter of its own, ethical consequences regarding the wrongness of killing animals from utilitarian and animal rights perspectives are laid out. Do at least some animals have a strong interest in continuing to live? Should they even be ascribed with a right not to be killed? And why might the awareness of our own mortality hinder us in finding answers?

Tod --- Tötung --- McMahan --- Menschenaffen --- Corvidae --- Tierrechte --- Tierethik --- zukunftsgerichtetes Verhalten --- Zukunftsdenken --- death --- killing --- great apes --- animal rights --- animal ethics --- future oriented behaviour --- future thinking --- prospective cognition

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Landscapes of Human Evolution is an edited volume in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo, and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art. John is also a leader in investigating the early history of fire use and control in relation to social action and hominin communication. Landscapes of Human Evolution seeks to mirror John's research profile and explores some of the most recent thinking regarding human evolution from the biological and cognitive development of our human ancestors, to the behavioural adaptations necessary to survive changing Pleistocene landscapes and environments. Specifically, Landscapes of Human Evolution focuses on the development of large hominin brains and bipedal locomotion; hominin interactions with landscape; and the amplification of complex hominin behaviours and social structures from the control of fire through to changing lithic technologies. Such an overview of the development of human ancestral species from a biological, cognitive, social, and behavioural perspective is particularly timely given the many recent advances in our understanding of the complexities of human evolution.

Human evolution. --- Tools, Prehistoric. --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Hominids --- Human evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Great apes --- Hominians --- Hominidae --- Homininae --- Hominins --- Homonids --- Man-like primates --- Pongidae --- Apes --- Primates --- Evolution --- Origin --- E-books --- Evolution.

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Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by compelling color photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. Eating Apes persuasively argues that the American conservation media have failed to report the ongoing collapse of the ape population. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.

Apes --- Wildlife conservation --- Ape meat industry --- african apes. --- african forests. --- american media. --- ape populations. --- ape slaughter. --- asian companies. --- bonobos. --- bush meat. --- central africa. --- chimpanzees. --- color photographs. --- commercial ape meat. --- conservation. --- consumption of animals. --- easy to read. --- endangered species. --- environmental loss. --- european companies. --- evolutionary relatives. --- expose piece. --- extinction. --- gorillas. --- great apes. --- karl ammann. --- logging. --- nonfiction. --- population collapse. --- primates. --- primatology.

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These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes-and at the lives of the humans who study them. In tales of adventure, research, and conservation, veteran field researchers and conservationists describe exciting discoveries made over the past few decades about chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. The book features vivid descriptions of interactions among these highly intelligent creatures as they hunt, socialize, and play. More difficult themes emerge as well, including the threats apes face from poaching, disease, and deforestation. In stories that are often moving and highly personal, this book takes measure of how special the great apes are and discusses positive conservation efforts, including ecotourism, that can help bring these magnificent animals back from the brink of extinction.

Apes --- Rare mammals --- Research --- Conservation. --- africa. --- african animals. --- african apes. --- animal behavior. --- apes. --- bonobos. --- bwindi impenetrable national park. --- central africa. --- chimpanzees. --- conservation. --- cote divoire. --- deforestation. --- disease. --- ecotourism. --- endangered animals. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- extinction. --- field research. --- forests. --- gabon. --- gorillas. --- great apes. --- ivindo national park. --- jungles. --- life sciences. --- nature photography. --- nature preserve. --- nature reserve. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- poaching. --- primates. --- primatology. --- science. --- tai national park. --- uganda. --- wild apes. --- wildlife. --- zoology.

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This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors.

Paleolithic period. --- Fossil hominids. --- Human evolution. --- Social evolution. --- Paléolithique --- Homme fossile --- Homme --- Evolution sociale --- Evolution --- Fossil hominids --- Hominids --- Human evolution --- Paleolithic period --- Social evolution --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Social change --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Stone age --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Great apes --- Hominians --- Hominidae --- Homininae --- Hominins --- Homonids --- Man-like primates --- Pongidae --- Apes --- Primates --- Early man --- Fossil hominins --- Fossil man --- Hominids, Fossil --- Hominins, Fossil --- Human fossils --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Primates, Fossil --- Paleoanthropology --- Origin