Alcohol and Humans
A Long and Social Affair
Edited by Kimberley Hockings and Robin Dunbar
Author Information
Kimberley Hockings, Lecturer in Conservation Science, University of Exeter, UK,Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Kimberley Hockings is a lecturer in Conservation Science at the Centre of Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter. Her research examines the ways in which human and nonhuman great apes coexist in shared landscapes, including in their overlapping use of resources such as fermented beverages. From this she has developed an interest in the evolutionary origins of ethanol consumption in humans. To effectively understand human and wildlife components of interactions her research increasingly combines biological, ecological, and social science approaches. She conducts fieldwork in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, west Africa, and is a member of the Great Ape Section of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group.
Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. His principal research interests focus on the evolution of sociality (with particular reference to primates and humans). He is best known for the social brain hypothesis, the gossip theory of language evolution and Dunbar's Number (the limit on the number of relationships that we can manage). He has published 30 books and edited volumes and over 300 journal articles.
Contributors:
Hilary J. Bethancourt, Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, 219 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Matthew Carrigan, Department of Biology, Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Lewis Daly, Department of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, UK
Michael Dietler, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th St., Chicago IL 60637, USA
Oliver Dietrich, German Archaeological Institute, Podbielskiallee 69-71, Berlin 14195, Germany
Laura Dietrich, German Archaeological Institute, Podbielskiallee 69-71, Berlin 14195, Germany
Robert Dudley, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Robin I.M. Dunbar, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
Elisa Guerra-Doce, Departamento de Prehistoria, Arqueologia, Antropologia Social y CC.TT. Historiograficas, Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
Kimberley Hockings, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK
Miho Ito, Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Patrick McGovern, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Angela McShane, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
Asha Y. Rosinger, Department of Anthropology and Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, 219 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Gen Yamakoshi, Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
