John Gowlett (3 knihy)
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Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett Social Brain, Distributed Mind EN
To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition - the social brain - in mediating the changes in behavior that we see in the archaeological record.
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Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar Thinking Big EN
When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances the ability to think big that drove the enlargement of the human brain…
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Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar Thinking Big
How did the brains of our hominin ancestors first become human minds? When did our capacity for language and art, music and dance evolve? And why does this matter today? This groundbreaking book contends that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances – the ability to ‘think big’ – that drove the enlargement of the human brain…
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