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| 245 | 0 | _aThinking big | |
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_aLondon _bThames, _c2014 |
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| 300 | _a224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | ||
| 500 | _ahow the evolution of social life shaped the human mind | ||
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_aPsychology meets archaeology _rWhat it means to be social-- _rAncient social lives-- _rAncestors with small brains-- _rBuilding the human niche : three crucial skills-- _rAncestors with large brains-- _rLiving in big societies.-- |
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| 520 | _aWhen and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances the ability to think big that drove the enlargement of the human brain and the development of the human mind. This social brain hypothesis, put forward by evolutionary psychologists such as Robin Dunbar, one of the authors of this book, can be tested against archaeological and fossil evidence, as archaeologists Clive Gamble and John Gowlett show in the second part of Thinking Big. Along the way, the three authors touch on subjects as diverse and diverting as the switch from finger-tip grooming to vocal grooming or the crucial importance of making fire for the lengthening of the social day. Ultimately, the social worlds we inhabit today can be traced back to our Stone Age ancestors. | ||
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_aBF PSYCHOLOGY _97 |
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_aEvolutionary psychology _911909 |
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_aSocial evolution _911910 |
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_aHuman evolution _911848 |
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_aBrain _x Evolution _911911 |
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_aCognition and culture _911912 |
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_aR. I. M., Dunbar (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947- author. 2014 _eAuthor _911913 |
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_aGamble, Clive _eAuthor _911914 |
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_aGowlett, John _eAuthor _911915 |
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