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David Zeitlyn FRAI (born 1958) is a British anthropologist. He is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford , and a supernumerary-Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford . His research has concentrated on the Mambila people of Cameroon , endangered languages and Cameroonian photographers such as Samuel Finlak , Joseph Chila and the ...
Tools made gathering food easier and more economical enabling ancestral humans to live in a sparser environment. It was not until the invention of receptacles to store food that more elaborate tools used to hunt, skin, and butcher were developed. According to the gathering hypothesis hunting had no major role in the evolution of modern humans. [3]
Advocates of the hunting hypothesis tend to believe that tool use and toolmaking essential to effective hunting were an extremely important part of human evolution, and trace the origin of language and religion to a hunting context. As societal evidence David Buss cites that modern tribal population deploy hunting as their primary way of ...
Anthony David Machell Cox (8 June 1913 – 25 October 1994) was a historian and mountaineer. David Cox was born in Plymouth, [2] and he spent his teenage years in Yelverton, Devon, where his father was headmaster of a prep school. [3] Cox attended Clifton College, Bristol. [4] In 1932 he went on to study Greats and modern history at Hertford ...
Pygmy hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin in August 2014. A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, [1] [2] that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat ...
Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of JFK, trolling political enemies in unhinged rants on social media to back progressive causes
In this essay, Hume offers a pioneering naturalist account of the causes, effects, and historical development of religious belief. Hume argues that a crude polytheism was the earliest religion of mankind and locates the origins of religion in emotion, particularly hope, fear, and the desire to control the future.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain to the United States.