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Human evolution : our brains and behavior
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"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 be...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Robin Dunbar
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190616786, 0190616784
- OCLC
- ocn945231172
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- What we have to explain -- The bases of primate sociality -- The essential framework -- The first transition : the australopithecines -- The second transition : early Homo -- The third transition : archaic humans -- The fourth transition : modern humans -- How kinship, language and culture came to be -- The fifth transition : the Neolithic and beyond
Subjects
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Biological Evolution
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- Adaptation, Psychological
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- Genetics, Behavioral
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- Sociobiology
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- Behavior
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