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A cross-species analysis of carnivore, primate, and hominid behaviour

The traditional assumption that the origin of human behavior is found within the higher primates rather than the social carnivores is based on failure to adequately define primate and carnivore behavior. Phyletic classification takes no account of convergence and divergence; the behavior of a species is not necessarily characteristic of its order. Of 8 behavior variables that distinguish the order primates from the order carnivora, preagricultural man resembles the carnivores on 7 items: food sharing, food storing, cannibalism, surplus killing, interspecies intolerance, feeding of young, and division of labor; resembling the order primates only in group defense. The original form of much human behavior is found within the carnivores.

Stimulation in Early Infancy. Proceedings of a Centre for Advanced Study in the Developmental Sciences Study Group on "The Functions of Stimulation in Early Postnatal Development" Held Jointly with the Ciba Foundation, London, November 1967, Being the First Study Group in a C. A. S. D. S. Programme on "The Origins of Human Behaviour". Anthony Ambrose

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksStimulation in Early Infancy. Proceedings of a Centre for Advanced Study in the Developmental Sciences Study Group on "The Functions of Stimulation in Early Postnatal Development" Held Jointly with the Ciba Foundation, London, November 1967, Being the First Study Group in a C. A. S. D. S. Programme on "The Origins of Human Behaviour". Anthony Ambrose M. W. FoxM. W. Fox Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 45, Number 4Dec., 1970 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/406732 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.