As hunter-gatherers, we used to have to walk (or even run, if you buy the persistence hunting theory) every day.
The pack hunting theory was based on a discovery of several specimens of Deinonychus found around the remains of a Tenontosaurus.
This "hunting magic" theory works a little like voodoo: representation as actualisation.
It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington — witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate.
I hate to say this of other feminists, but aspects of their feminism – the anti-intellectualism, emphasis on innate knowledge, fetishisation of tiny ideological differences, heresy hunting, conspiracy theories, rhetorical use of images of disgust, talk of stabs in the back and romantic apocalypticism – smack less of feminism than of a cult.
Chimpanzee group hunting of monkeys and human collaborative foraging both fit within the general framework of the Stag Hunt from game theory: individuals have a safe low-value option available to them (the "hare"), but if they cooperate, they can both benefit from a higher value option (the "stag").
In theory, hunting could be limited, he said, but Ebola presents a much greater problem, especially since scientists do not know what animals harbor the virus.
According to one theory, hunting gives men an opportunity to display their genetic mettle, so they do it to attract mates as much as to bring home the wild-boar bacon.
It's fun to rib physicists by pointing out that while they've been hunting a Grand Theory of Everything for millennia, in biology, we did it three times, all in the space of a hundred years.
According to Leidig, among the topics the two discussed were: lion hunting; Muir's theory — controversial at the time — that Yosemite had been shaped by glaciers; the importance of forest conservation; and the need for more national parks.
