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Human evolution : our brains and behavior / Robin Dunbar.

By: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: 415 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190616786 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.7 23
LOC classification:
  • BF698.95 .D85 2016
Other classification:
  • SCI027000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- CHAPTER 1 What We Have to Explain -- CHAPTER 2 The Bases of Primate Sociality -- CHAPTER 3 The Essential Framework -- CHAPTER 4 The First Transition: THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES -- CHAPTER 5 The Second Transition: EARLY HOMO -- CHAPTER 6 The Third Transition: ARCHAIC HUMANS -- CHAPTER 7 The Fourth Transition: MODERN HUMANS -- CHAPTER 8 How Kinship, Language and Culture Came to Be -- CHAPTER 9 The Fifth Transition: THE NEOLITHIC AND BEYOND.
Summary: "This book covers the psychological aspects of human evolution with a table of contents ranging from prehistoric times to modern days. Dunbar focuses on an aspect of evolution that has typically been overshadowed by the archaeological record: the biological, neurological, and genetic changes that occurred with each "transition" in the evolutionary narrative"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BF698.95 .D85 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001427409

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book covers the psychological aspects of human evolution with a table of contents ranging from prehistoric times to modern days. Dunbar focuses on an aspect of evolution that has typically been overshadowed by the archaeological record: the biological, neurological, and genetic changes that occurred with each "transition" in the evolutionary narrative"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: -- CHAPTER 1 What We Have to Explain -- CHAPTER 2 The Bases of Primate Sociality -- CHAPTER 3 The Essential Framework -- CHAPTER 4 The First Transition: THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES -- CHAPTER 5 The Second Transition: EARLY HOMO -- CHAPTER 6 The Third Transition: ARCHAIC HUMANS -- CHAPTER 7 The Fourth Transition: MODERN HUMANS -- CHAPTER 8 How Kinship, Language and Culture Came to Be -- CHAPTER 9 The Fifth Transition: THE NEOLITHIC AND BEYOND.

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