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Autore |
Martin M. Kay <1942-> |
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Social DNA : rethinking our evolutionary past / / M. Kay Martin |
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New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social evolution |
Human evolution |
Brain - Evolution |
Kinship |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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. |
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