Lucy to Language
The Benchmark Papers
Edited by R. I. M. Dunbar, Clive Gamble, and J. A. J. Gowlett
Table of Contents
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