Lucy to Language
The Benchmark Papers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 February 2014
- ISBN 9780199652594
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages530 pages
- Size 241x162x38 mm
- Weight 952 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 59 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume readdresses the past contribution from archaeology towards the study of evolutionary issues, and ties evolutionary psychology into the extensive historical data from the past, allowing us to escape the confined timeframe of the comparatively recent human mind and explore the question of just what it is that makes us so different.
MoreLong description:
The concept of the social brain has become a popular topic in the last decade and has generated interest within the research community and contributed to a wide public examination of human culture, nature, mind, and instinct, as well as aspects of social and business organisation. At its core, the hypothesis that our social life drove the dramatic enlargement of our brain, bridges the dimensions of our evolutionary history and our contemporary experience. This has been the focus of a seven-year research project funded by the British Academy, the British Academy Centenary Research Project (otherwise known as the Lucy Project).
The main aim of the Lucy Project has been to explore these two axes in an integrated set of studies whose focus was to link archaeology and, in its broadest sense, evolutionary psychology, which offers powerful, new explanatory insights. This approach redresses the past contribution from archaeology towards the study of evolutionary issues and ties evolutionary psychology into the extensive historical data from the past, allowing us to escape the confined timeframe of the comparatively recent human mind.
In this volume of published and new papers, the contributors explore the question of just what it is that makes us so different, and why and when these uniquely human capacities evolved.
This is a pretty complete reading for those who want to, at once, step into the issue of the social brain. The field is vast and heterogeneous, and this collection of articles supplies the possibility to have a comprehensive base to begin with.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Contributors
List of Illustrations and Tables
Sources
I: Background
Mind the Gap: or why we aren't just great apes
The social brain and the shape of the palaeolithic
II: Social Brain and Cognition
The social brain hypothesis: an evolutionary perspective on the neurobiology of social behaviour
Hominin cognitive evolution: identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record
The Identity Model: a theory to access visual display and hominin cognition within the Palaeolithic
The longest transition or multiple revolutions? Curves and steps in the record of human origins
III: Processes of Social Bonding
Relationships and the social brain hypothesis: integrating evolutionary and psychological perspectives
Close social relationships: an evolutionary perspective
The brain opioid theory of social attachment: a review of the evidence
IV: Community, Time and Cohesion
Time as an ecological constraint
Unravelling the evolutionary function of communities
Fireside chat: the impact of fire on hominin socioecology
Bridging the bonding gap: the transition from primates to humans
V: The Social World in Antiquity
Evolution of primate social systems: implications for hominin social evolution
The road to modern humans: time budgets, fission-fusion sociality, kinship and the division of labour in hominin evolution
The costs of being a high latitude hominin
Communities on the edge of civilisation
VI: Language, Kinship and Culture
The elements of design form in Acheulean bifaces: modes, modalities, rules and language
Why only humans have language
Social origins: sharing, exchange, kinship
Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of mind
Appendix: Selected Principal Publications of the Lucy Project (2003-2012)
Index
