Human evolution : our brains and behavior /
Robin Dunbar.
- 415 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
9780190616786 (hardback)
2016009401
Evolutionary psychology. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.