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Examine this list of characteristics

that have been traced to a

human hunting and gathering way of life

1. reduction in canines and increased skill in the manufacture and use of tools and weapons;
2. bipedalism as a means of locomotion freeing the hands;
3. sharing of food;
4. sexual division of labor;
5. continual sexual receptivity of the female;
6. an incest taboo to avoid disruption of the nuclear and extended family;
7. exogamy and the exchange of females outward;
8. cooperation replacing competition among males;
9. territoriality, increased mobility and a larger home range;
10. egalitarian existance, aethetics and altruism;

While this list is certainly not exhaustive, it serves as a beginning to look at the differences between humans and other primates.

Prosimians	Pongids	Gibbons	New World Monkeys
Old World Monkeys	Primate Anatomy	Locomotion	Reoriented Use of Senses
Larger Primate Brains	Primate Environments	Dentition	Primate Diets
"Social organization"	Primate Evolution	Infant-Mother Bond and Childhood	Diurnal and Nocturnal Behaviors
Dominance and Hierarchies	Human Organization as Bands	One Final Thought	Introductory Page