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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind - Gamble, Clive, and Gowlett, John, and Dunbar, Robin
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When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances - the ability to 'think big' - that drove the enlargement of the human brain and the development of the human mind. This 'social brain hypothesis', put forward by evolutionary ...

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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind 2018, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780500293829

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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind 2014, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780500051801

Hardcover