Full Description
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
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Some Givens
Chapter 1. Perspectives on Anisogamy
Chapter 2. First Families
Chapter 3. Paleoecology and Emergence of Genus Homo
Chapter 4. Paleolithic Dinner Pairings: Red or White?
Chapter 5. Signature Hominin Traits
Chapter 6. Kinship and Paleolithic Legends
Chapter 7. Kinship as Social Technology
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
