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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Killer Ape -- 2 The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness -- 3 Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts -- 4 The White Stag -- 5 The Sobbing Deer -- 6 The Noise of Breaking Machinery -- 7 The Sorrows of Eohippus -- 8 The Sick Animal -- 9 The Bambi Syndrome -- 10 A Fatal Disease of Nature -- 11 The Spirit of the Beast -- 12 A View to a Death in the Morning -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Der amerikanische Autor, Anthropologe, setzt sich in seinem Buch mit dem Ursprung des Menschen, mit Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Tier und Natur im Ablauf der Geschichte und mit der Bedeutung der Jagd in der Entwicklung des Menschen auseinander. Seine interessanten, gut lesbaren, mit vielen Zitaten durchsetzten Ausführungen basieren auf wissenschaftlicher Forschung und werden in einem 86seitigen Anhang mit Anmerkungen, Bibliographie und Personenregister dokumentiert und erschlossen. Das Thema "Verhältnis zwischen Mensch - Natur - Jagd" ist nicht nur bei Jägern und Naturschützern, sondern auch darüber hinaus immer wieder im Gespräch und wird durch dieses Werk aufschlußreich und anregend zur Diskussion dargeboten. (2 S) (Georg Friedrich Dahm)

We attribute consciousness to other humans because their anatomy and behavior resembles our own and their verbal descriptions of subjective experiences correspond to ours. Nonhuman mammals have somewhat humanlike behavior and anatomy, but without the verbal descriptions. Their sentience is therefore open to Cartesian doubt. Robot "minds" lack humanlike behavior and anatomy, and so their sentience is generally discounted no matter what sentences they generate. Invertebrates lack both neurological similarity and language. Although it may be safest in making moral judgments to assume that some invertebrates are sentient, cogent reasons for thinking so must await an objective causal explanation for subjective experience.

There are hereditary differences among human beings. Some of these differences have geographical correlates. Some genetic variants that produce physical or behavioral deficits occur significantly more often in some areas, or in some ethnic groups, than in others. However, none of these facts provides any intellectual support for the race concept, for racial classifications, or for social hierarchies based on ethnic‐group membership.The geographical element of the race concept is important in theory but is widely ignored in practice since it does not conform well to the facts of current human phenotype distribution. Much of the literature on supposed racial differences involves such geographically meaningless exercises as studying differences among "races" by subdividing a sample of North Americans. If races are defined as geographically delimited conspecific populations characterized by distinctive regional phenotypes, then human races do not exist now and have not existed for centuries,

Leonard Lieberman, Rod Kirk, and Alice Littlefield report a significant decrease over the past 20 years in the percentage of physical anthropologists who support the race concept, while Matt Cartmill concludes that use of this concept did not decline during that period among anthropologists who study modern human variation. Neither study contradicts the other, since the two used different definitions and sampled different populations. More extensive sampling of the literature and more reliable survey techniques are needed to resolve the issue, [Keywords: race, history of ideas, biological anthropology]