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"This book covers the psychological aspects of human evolution with a table of contents ranging from prehistoric times to modern days. Dunbar focuses on an aspect of evolution that has typically been overshadowed by the archaeological record: the biological, neurological, and genetic changes that oc... Full description
Table of Contents:
- What we have to explain
- The bases of primate sociality
- The essential framework
- The first transition: the australopithecines
- The second transition: early homo
- The third transition: archaic humans
- The fourth transition: modern humans
- How kinship, language and culture came to be
- The fifth transition: the neolithic and beyond.