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The invaders : how humans and their dogs drove Neanderthals to extinction /

Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals--a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate chan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shipman, Pat, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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  • And he is us
  • Here we come, ready or not
  • Time is of the essence
  • Who wins in an invasion?
  • How do you know that?
  • What's for dinner?
  • What does an invasion look like?
  • Going, going, gone
  • Guess who else is coming for dinner?
  • Bearing up under competition pressure
  • The Jagger principle
  • Dogged
  • Why dogs?
  • When is a wolf not a wolf?
  • What happened and why.