Preface
Contributors
List of Illustrations and Tables
Sources
I: Background
1. Mind the Gap: or why we aren't just great apes, R.I.M. Dunbar
2. The social brain and the shape of the palaeolithic, Clive Gamble, J.A.J. Gowlett and R.I.M. Dunbar
II: Social Brain and Cognition
3. The social brain hypothesis: an evolutionary perspective on the neurobiology of social behaviour, Susanne Shultz and R.I.M. Dunbar
4. Hominin cognitive evolution: identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record, Susanne Shultz, Emma Nelson and R.I.M. Dunbar
5. The Identity Model: a theory to access visual display and hominin cognition within the Palaeolithic, James Cole
6. The longest transition or multiple revolutions? Curves and steps in the record of human origins, J.A.J. Gowlett
III: Processes of Social Bonding
7. Relationships and the social brain hypothesis: integrating evolutionary and psychological perspectives, A.J. Sutcliffe, R.I.M. Dunbar, Jens Binder and Holly Arrow
8. Close social relationships: an evolutionary perspective, S.B.G. Roberts, Holly Arrow, Julia Lehmann and R.I.M. Dunbar
9. The brain opioid theory of social attachment: a review of the evidence, A.J. Machin and R.I.M. Dunbar
IV: Community, Time and Cohesion
10. Time as an ecological constraint, R.I.M. Dunbar, A.H. Korstjens and Julia Lehmann
11. Unravelling the evolutionary function of communities, Julia Lehmann, P.C. Lee and R.I.M. Dunbar
12. Fireside chat: the impact of fire on hominin socioecology, R.I.M. Dunbar and J.A.J. Gowlett
13. Bridging the bonding gap: the transition from primates to humans, R.I.M. Dunbar
V: The Social World in Antiquity
14. Evolution of primate social systems: implications for hominin social evolution, Susanne Shultz, Christopher Opie, Emma Nelson, Q.D. Atkinson and R.I.M. Dunbar
15. The road to modern humans: time budgets, fission-fusion sociality, kinship and the division of labour in hominin evolution, R.I.M. Dunbar, Julia Lehmann, A.H. Korstjens and J.A.J. Gowlett
16. The costs of being a high latitude hominin, Eiluned Pearce, Andy Shuttleworth, M.J. Grove and R.H. Layton
17. Communities on the edge of civilisation, Fiona Coward and R.I.M. Dunbar
VI: Language, Kinship and Culture
18. The elements of design form in Acheulean bifaces: modes, modalities, rules and language, J.A.J. Gowlett
19. Why only humans have language, R.I.M. Dunbar
20. Social origins: sharing, exchange, kinship, Alan Barnard
21. Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of mind, Fiona Coward and Clive Gamble
Appendix: Selected Principal Publications of the Lucy Project (2003-2012)
Index