How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
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Köp båda 2 för 429 kr'An important, provocative essay on human evolution, argued with great eloquence and skill' - Current Archaeology 'A triumph of collaboration, as well as a gripping detective story' - New Statesman 'A dramatic demolition of the stones and bones approach to archaeology' - New Scientist 'Retains the Thames & Hudson tradition of thinking clearly, and writing well You will not read a more important book this year' - Minerva 'An important piece of work anyone with an interest in early human and pre-human society should add to their reading list' - Popular Science Books blog 'Compelling' - The Lady 'An important piece of work anyone with an interest in early human and pre-human society should add to their reading list' - Popular Science Books blog
Clive Gamble is a British archaeologist and anthropologist, and Professor of Archaeology at Southampton University. He has been described as the 'UKs foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors'. John Gowlett is Professor of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at Liverpool University. He is involved in fieldwork in eastern and southern Africa. Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist specialised in primate behaviour. He is currently head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, a measurement of the 'cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships'.
Preface 1. Psychology Meets Archaeology 2. What It Means to Be Social 3. Ancient Social Lives 4. Ancestors With Small Brains 5. Building the Human Niche: Three Crucial Skills 6. Ancestors with Large Brains 7. Living in Big Societies