Social DNA - M. Kay Martin

Social DNA

Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-757-6 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
Presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human...
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.

M. Kay Martin has a diversified research, planning, and management background in the academic, public, and private sectors; she has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has since held executive posts in applied anthropology, environmental research, resource conservation, and other fields. She was the principal author of Female of the Species (1975, Columbia University Press) and has also published ethnohistorical and cross-cultural studies on foraging societies.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-757-6 / 1789207576
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-757-6 / 9781789207576
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