Human evolution : our brains and behavior / Robin Dunbar.

By:

Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947-

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.

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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.

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