Conference Proposal: Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality

所有昼行性灵长类动物都群居生活。这被广泛认为是捕食者的保护机制。有越多的眼睛和耳朵来探测捕食者，越多的动物来围攻它们，这个群体就能得到更好的保护。传统上，早期人类被认为是猎人。然而，由于他们相对较小的体型，牙齿，缺乏狩猎工具，以及许多其他因素，更有可能的是，最早的人类，像大多数其他灵长类动物一样，是猎物而不是捕食者。社会性、合作、个体间的依赖和相互保护都是社会生活猎物的一部分。在本次研讨会上，与会者将探讨这一假设和许多机制，非人灵长类动物和人类可能已经进化为保护免受捕食者，包括合作和社会。此外，参与者还探讨了与我们作为猎物物种的进化相关的行为、激素和神经精神机制如何影响现代人的行为。

All diurnal primates live in social groups. This is widely recognized as a predator protection mechanism. The more eyes and ears to detect predators and the more animals to mob them, the better the group is protected. Early humans have traditionally been thought of as hunters. However, because of their relatively small size, dentition, lack of hunting tools, and a number of other factors, it is more likely that the earliest humans, like most other primates, were prey species rather than predators. Sociality, cooperation, inter-individual dependency, and mutual protection are all part of the toolkit of social-living prey. In this symposium, the participants will explore this hypothesis and many of the mechanisms nonhuman primates and humans may have evolved as protection against predators,including cooperation and sociality. Further, the participants explore how behavioral, hormonal, and neuron-psychiatric mechanisms related to our evolution as a prey species might be affecting modern human behavior.