Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

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.

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Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

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.

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Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

by M. Kay Martin
Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

by M. Kay Martin

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789207576
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 10/01/2020
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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