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In this first chapter we describe the importance of hunting and meat eating to humans and how this has influenced the evolution of the species. This is followed by a brief review of how prevailing ecological conditions influence human’s dependence on plants or animals to survive at different latitudes. We then document which animal species and groups are currently hunted and used for food, discuss the issue of wild meat markets particularly in Africa and set out our current knowledge of rates of wild meat consumption in different parts of the world. The chapter ends with an explanation of why this book has been conceived and how we can use accumulated knowledge on this subject to reduce wild meat exploitation to sustainable levels, by outlining the main pathways that enable us to understand human predatory behaviour and ways of balancing human and wildlife needs in the future.

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