Social DNA (eBook)

Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

M. Kay Martin (Autor)

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2018
288 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-008-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2018
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adaptations • African • ancestral • Ancient • ancient mankind • anisogamy • engaging • Environmental Conditions • Ethology • Evolution • evolutionary trajectory • General Anthropology • genetic platforms • Human Evolution • Human nature • human social origins • hunting economies • kinship family • Life Sciences • multidisciplinary study • network archaeology • physical anthropology • Prehistory • primate brain • Reproductive strategies • social DNA • Social Evolution, Cultural Evolution, Social Genetics, Social Heredity, Evolution, Human Origins, Human Social Evolution • Social Origins • Social Science • Social Strategies • Theoretical
• ISBN-10: 1-78920-008-3 / 1789200083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-008-9 / 9781789200089