Lucy to language : the benchmark papers / edited by R.I.M. Dunbar, Clive Gamble, J.A.J. Gowlett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Gamble, Clive, editor.

Gowlett, John, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Evolutionary psychology.

Brain--Evolution.

Brain.

Physical Description:

xviii, 509 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 organization. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Background

1 Mind the Gap: or Why Humans Aren't Just Great Apes / R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 3

2 The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic / Clive Gamble Gamble, Clive, J.A.J. Gowlett Gowlett, J.A.J., R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 19

II Social Brain and Cognition

3 The Social Brain Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Neurobiology of Social Behaviour / Susanne Shultz Shultz, Susanne, R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 53

4 Hominin Cognitive Evolution: Identifying Patterns and Processes in the Fossil and Archaeological Record / Susanne Shultz Shultz, Susanne, Emma Nelson Nelson, Emma, R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 70

5 The Identity Model: A Theory to Access Visual Display and Hominin Cognition within the Palaeolithic / James Cole Cole, James 90

6 The Longest Transition or Multiple Revolutions? Curves and Steps in the Record of Human Origins / J.A.J. Gowlett Gowlett, J.A.J. 108

III Processes of Social Bonding

7 Relationships and the Social Brain: Integrating Psychological and Evolutionary Perspectives / Alistair Sutcliffe Sutcliffe, Alistair, R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M., Jens Binder Binder, Jens, Holly Arrow Arrow, Holly 129

8 Close Social Relationships: An Evolutionary Perspective / S.G.B. Roberts Roberts, S.G.B., Holly Arrow Arrow, Holly, J.A.J. Gowlett Gowlett, J.A.J., Julia Lehmann Lehmann, Julia, R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 151

9 The Brain Opioid Theory of Social Attachment: A Review of the Evidence / A.J. Machin Machin, A.J., R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 181

IV Community, Time, and Cohesion

10 Time as an Ecological Constraint / R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M., A.H. Korstjens Korstjens, A.H., Julia Lehmann Lehmann, Julia 213

11 Unravelling the Function of Community-level Organization / Julia Lehmann Lehmann, Julia, Phyllis Lee Lee, Phyllis, R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 245

12 Fireside Chat: The Impact of Fire on Hominin Socioecology / R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M., J.A.J. Gowlett Gowlett, J.A.J. 277

13 Bridging the Bonding Gap: The Transition from Primates to Humans / R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 297

V The Social World in Antiquity

14 Evolution of Primate Social Systems: Implications for Hominin Social Evolution / Susanne Shultz Shultz, Susanne, Christopher Opie Opie, Christopher, Emma Nelson Nelson, Emma, Q.D. Atkinson Atkinson, Q.D., R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 317

15 The Road to Modern Humans: Time Budgets, Fission-fusion Sociality, Kinship and the Division of Labour in Hominin Evolution / R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M., Julia Lehmann Lehmann, Julia, Amanda H. Korstjens Korstjens, Amanda H., J.A.J. Gowlett Gowlett, J.A.J. 333

16 The Costs of Being a High-latitude Hominin / Eiluned Pearce Pearce, Eiluned, Andrew Shuttleworth Shuttleworth, Andrew, Matt Grove Grove, Matt, R.H. Layton Layton, R.H. 356

17 Communities on the Edge of Civilization / Fiona Coward Coward, Fiona, R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 380

VI Language, Kinship, and Culture

18 The Elements of Design Form in Acheulean Bifaces: Modes, Modalities, Rules, and Language / J.A.J. Gowlett Gowlett, J.A.J. 409

19 Why Only Humans Have Language / R.I.M. Dunbar Dunbar, R.I.M. 427

20 Social Origins: Sharing, Exchange, and Kinship / Alan Barnard Barnard, Alan 446

21 Big Brains, Small Worlds: Material Culture and the Evolution of the Mind / Fiona Coward Coward, Fiona, Clive Gamble Gamble, Clive 461.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0199652597

9780199652594

OCLC:

864787429

Publisher Number:

99958671062