@article {308348, title = {The Animal Connection and Human Evolution}, journal = {Current Anthropology}, volume = {51}, year = {2010}, month = {08/2010}, pages = {519-538}, chapter = {519}, abstract = {

A suite of unique physical and behavioral characteristics distinguishes\ Homo sapiens\ from other mammals. Three diagnostic human behaviors played key roles in human evolution: tool making, symbolic behavior and language, and the domestication of plants and animals. I focus here on a previously unrecognized fourth behavior, which I call the animal connection, that characterized the human lineage over the past 2.6 million years. I propose that the animal connection is the underlying link among the other key human behaviors and that it substantially influenced the evolution of humans.

}, doi = {10.1086/653816}, url = {http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/653816}, author = {Shipman, P.} }