Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind - Couverture souple

Gamble, Clive; Gowlett, John; Dunbar, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500293821 ISBN 13 : 9780500293829

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Thinking Big, 9780500293829

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Clive Gamble is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. His publications include Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory (2007) and Archaeology: The Basics (2007).

John Gowlett is Professor of Archaeology at Liverpool University. He has published numerous articles and contributions within edited volumes.

Robin Dunbar is head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford. He has published numerous books including Grooming Gossip and the Evolution of Language (2004), The Human Story (2005), How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks (2011), The Science of Love (2012) and The Science of Love and Betrayal (2013).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

When 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. As this remarkable book shows, it seems we still inhabit social worlds that originated deep in our evolutionary past - by the fireside, in the hunt and on the grasslands of Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500293821
• ISBN 13: 9780500293829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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