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020			_a978-0-500-29382-9
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050	0	0	_aBF 698.95 G36 2018
100	1		_aGamble, Clive, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aThinking big : _bhow the evolution of social life shaped the human mind / _cClive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar.
250			_aPaperback edition.
260			_aLondon : _bThames and Hudson, _cc2018
300			_a238 ppages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aPsychology meets archaeology -- What it means to be social -- Ancient social lives -- Ancestors with small brains -- Building the human niche : three crucial skills -- Ancestors with large brains -- Living in big societies.
520	3		_aWhen 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 psychologists such as Robin Dunbar, one of the authors of this book, can be tested against archaeological and fossil evidence, as archaeologists Clive Gamble and John Gowlett show in the second part of Thinking Big. Along the way, the three authors touch on subjects as diverse and diverting as the switch from finger-tip grooming to vocal grooming or the crucial importance of making fire for the lengthening of the social day. Ultimately, the social worlds we inhabit today can be traced back to our Stone Age ancestors.
650		0	_aEVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY.
650		0	_aSOCIAL EVOLUTION.
650		0	_aHUMAN EVOLUTION.
650		0	_aBRAIN _xEVOLUTION.
650		0	_aCOGNITION AND CULTURE.
700	1		_aGowlett, John, _eco-author.
700	1		_aDunbar, R. I. M. _q(Robin Ian MacDonald), _d1947- _eco-author.
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