This volume brings together two powerful approaches--the social brain hypothesis and the concept of the distributed mind, and compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. It offers the possibility of new insights into the evolution of human cognition and social lives that will further our understanding of the relationship between mind and world.
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This volume brings together two powerful approaches--the social brain hypothesis and the concept of the distributed mind, and compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. It offers the possibility of new insights into the evolution of human cognition and social lives that will further our understanding of the relationship between mind and world.
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Good Plus. in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x1x6; [ANTHROPOLOGY]. Eds. Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett. Contributors: Yonas Beyene, Julia Lehmann, Robert Layton, Anna Wallette, Julie Hui, et al. "Social Brain, Distributed Mind (Proceedings of the British Academy 158)." Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, the British Academy, 2010. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Academic articles with black and white illustrations and images. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.25 in. 24 x 16 x 3 cm. 43 oz. pp. xviii, 528. Small tear in jacket at bottom spine. Price in pencil on free front endpaper. Ink underlining and marginalia. Vast majority of text clean. Good Plus in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 9780197264522."To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition, the social brain, in mediating the changes in behavior that we see in the archaeological record. This volume brings together two powerful approaches--the social brain hypothesis and the concept of the distributed mind, and compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences."
