Lucy to language : the benchmark papers

edited by R.I.M. Dunbar, Clive Gamble, J.A.J. Gowlett

The concept of the social brain has become a popular topic in the last decade and has generated interest within the research community and contributed to a wide public examination of human culture, nature, mind, and instinct, as well as aspects of social and business organisation. At its core, the hypothesis that our social life drove the dramatic enlargement of our brain, bridges the dimensions of our evolutionary history and our contemporary experience. This has been the focus of a seven-year research project funded by the British Academy, the British Academy Centenary Research Project (otherwise known as the Lucy Project). The main aim of the Lucy Project has been to explore these two axes in an integrated set of studies whose focus was to link archaeology and, in its broadest sense, evolutionary psychology, which offers powerful, new explanatory insights. This approach redresses the past contribution from archaeology towards the study of evolutionary issues and ties evolutionary psychology into the extensive historical data from the past, allowing us to escape the confined timeframe of the comparatively recent human mind. In this volume of published and new papers, the contributors explore the question of just what it is that makes us so different, and why and when these uniquely human capacities evolved.

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[目次]

  • PREFACE
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
  • SOURCES
  • I: BACKGROUND
  • 1. Mind the Gap: or why we aren't just great apes
  • 2. The social brain and the shape of the palaeolithic
  • II: SOCIAL BRAIN AND COGNITION
  • 3. The social brain hypothesis: an evolutionary perspective on the neurobiology of social behaviour
  • 4. Hominin cognitive evolution: identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record
  • 5. The Identity Model: a theory to access visual display and hominin cognition within the Palaeolithic
  • 6. The longest transition or multiple revolutions? Curves and steps in the record of human origins
  • III: PROCESSES OF SOCIAL BONDING
  • 7. Relationships and the social brain hypothesis: integrating evolutionary and psychological perspectives
  • 8. Close social relationships: an evolutionary perspective
  • 9. The brain opioid theory of social attachment: a review of the evidence
  • IV: COMMUNITY, TIME AND COHESION
  • 10. Time as an ecological constraint
  • 11. Unravelling the evolutionary function of communities
  • 12. Fireside chat: the impact of fire on hominin socioecology
  • 13. Bridging the bonding gap: the transition from primates to humans
  • V: THE SOCIAL WORLD IN ANTIQUITY
  • 14. Evolution of primate social systems: implications for hominin social evolution
  • 15. The road to modern humans: time budgets, fission-fusion sociality, kinship and the division of labour in hominin evolution
  • 16. The costs of being a high latitude hominin
  • 17. Communities on the edge of civilisation
  • VI: LANGUAGE, KINSHIP AND CULTURE
  • 18. The elements of design form in Acheulean bifaces: modes, modalities, rules and language
  • 19. Why only humans have language
  • 20. Social origins: sharing, exchange, kinship
  • 21. Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of mind
  • APPENDIX: SELECTED PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE LUCY PROJECT (2003-2012)
  • INDEX

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書名 Lucy to language : the benchmark papers
著作者等 Dunbar, R. I. M.
Gamble, Clive
Gowlett, John
Gowlett J.A.J.
Dunbar R.I.M.
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2014
版表示 1st ed
ページ数 xviii, 509 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9780199652594
NCID BB15612806
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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