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028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.
_b;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002
_c;117055
_d;04/01/2020
082 _a569.9 SHI
100 _aPat Shipman
245 _aThe invaders
_b: how humans and their dogs drove Neanderthals to extinction
_c/Pat Shipman
260 _aCambridge, Massachusetts
_b : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
_c, 2015.
300 _axiii, 266 pages
_c;24 cm.
365 _b1459
505 _aAnd 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.
520 _aHumans 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 change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.
650 _aBiology
655 _a;Human evolution
_b;Human-animal relationships
700 _aPat Shipman
942 _cBOOK