Conference Proposal: Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality

会议提案：被猎杀的人：人类社会的起源和本质

• 批准号: 0638530
• 负责人: Robert Sussman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0638530&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Proposal; Man; Hunted; Origins

All diurnal primates live in social groups. This is widely recognized as a predator protection mechanism. The more eyes and ears to detect predators and the more animals to mob them, the better the group is protected. Early humans have traditionally been thought of as hunters. However, because of their relatively small size, dentition, lack of hunting tools, and a number of other factors, it is more likely that the earliest humans, like most other primates, were prey species rather than predators. Sociality, cooperation, inter-individual dependency, and mutual protection are all part of the toolkit of social-living prey. In this symposium, the participants will explore this hypothesis and many of the mechanisms nonhuman primates and humans may have evolved as protection against predators,including cooperation and sociality. Further, the participants explore how behavioral, hormonal, and neuron-psychiatric mechanisms related to our evolution as a prey species might be affecting modern human behavior.

所有昼行灵长类动物都生活在社会群体中。这被广泛认为是一种捕食者保护机制。发现掠食者的眼睛和耳朵越多，围攻掠食者的动物越多，这个群体就受到更好的保护。早期人类传统上被认为是猎人。 然而，由于它们的体型相对较小、牙列、缺乏狩猎工具以及许多其他因素，最早的人类与大多数其他灵长类动物一样，更有可能是猎物物种而不是掠食者。社会性、合作、个体间依赖和相互保护都是社会性猎物工具包的一部分。在本次研讨会上，参与者将探讨这一假设以及非人类灵长类动物和人类可能进化出的许多机制来抵御捕食者，包括合作和社交。此外，参与者还探讨了与我们作为猎物物种的进化相关的行为、激素和神经精神机制如何影响现代人类的行为。