http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/wuis-nbf082008.php
Despite popular theories to the contrary, early humans evolved not as
aggressive hunters, but as prey of many predators.
"Humans are no more born to be hunters than to be gardeners," argues
Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington
University in St. Louis, in the newly-updated version of the
controversial book "Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators and Human
Evolution."
The soft cover book, released in July by Westview Press, includes a
new chapter aimed at quieting critics and responding to new evidence
that has appeared since the book's original publication in 2005.
In the original volume, Sussman poses a new theory, based on the
fossil record and living primate species, that primates have been prey
for millions of years, a fact that greatly influenced the evolution of
early man. The book won the 2006 W.W. Howells Award for the best book
in biological anthropology written for a wide audience.
Both versions are co-authored by Donna L. Hart, Ph.D., a member of the
faculty of Pierre Laclede Honors College and the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.