Social DNA : rethinking our evolutionary past / M. Kay Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, M. Kay, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social evolution.

Human evolution.

Brain--Evolution.

Brain.

Kinship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions. Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins – challenging models that trace our beginnings to traits shaped by ancient hunting economies, or to genetic platforms shared with contemporary apes.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction : some givens

Perspectives on anisogamy

First families

Paleoecology and emergence of genus homo

Paleolithic dinner pairings : red or white?

Signature hominin traits

Kinship and paleolithic legends

Kinship as social technology

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-362-7

1-78920-008-3

OCLC:

1056907647