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A 4 page essay that offers answers to specific questions on two episodes of Desmond Morris's series The Human Animal: The Hunting Ape and The Human Zoo. No additional sources are cited.
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only plants, animals, and other living things but also clay, which contains calcium, magnesium and iron. 3)Humans have a strange physiology for a savanna living ape. List four aspects
of human physiology that differ from our ape cousins: a)weak and small jaws b)ability to aim well, as well as good long distance vision, which are both essential skills for
hunting. c)adapted the food to our teeth d)do not need to eat as often as herbivores 4)According to Morris, humans are go-getters and anything but docile. 5)The cooperative nature of
humans has led to the development of warfare, one of the darkest aspects of our animal and social nature (Morris "The Hunting Ape"). In this fascinating video, Desmond Morris
explains how human evolution may have been ignited by a simple change in diet, specifically, the change from herbivore to being a carnivore. Herbivores eat as a lone activity
and the process takes up the vast majority of their time. By becoming carnivorous, humans did not have to eat as frequently, which gave them the free time needed to
make social and technical advancements. Numerous social changes accompanied this early changes in behavior. As human beings are not particularly fast or powerful hunters, in order to achieve success as
hunters, they had to cooperate. In addition to cooperative hunting behaviors, this also led to the development of eating as a social occasion, shared by all hunters and their families.
The influence of this practice continues to the present, as mealtime remains a social occasion and people most comfortable eating publically when they are part of a group (Morris "The
Hunting Ape"). Morris also shows how hunting behaviors continue symbolically, and he describes how these behaviors are evident in regards to modern work schedules, as well as in regards
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