Lucy to language : the benchmark papers / edited by R.I.M. Dunbar, Clive Gamble, J.A.J. Gowlett.
Contributor(s): Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald) [editor.]
| Gamble, Clive [editor.] | Gowlett, John [editor.] | British Academy.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 509 pages) : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191804700 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Archaeology | Social archaeology | Evolutionary psychology | Brain -- Evolution | Social evolution | Human evolution | Paleolithic periodAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199652594DDC classification: 930.1 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The hypothesis that our social life drove the dramatic enlargement of our brain bridges the dimensions of our evolutionary history and our contemporary experience and has been the focus of a seven-year research project funded by the British Academy, the British Academy Centenary Research Project (otherwise known as the Lucy Project). The main aim of the Lucy Project has been to explore these two axes in an integrated set of studies whose focus was to link archaeology and, in its broadest sense, evolutionary psychology, which offers powerful, new explanatory insights.
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Outgrowth of the British Academy Centenary Research Project ("Lucy Project"), a multidisplinary research project conducted from 2003 to 2010. (Preface and dust jacket copy ).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The hypothesis that our social life drove the dramatic enlargement of our brain bridges the dimensions of our evolutionary history and our contemporary experience and has been the focus of a seven-year research project funded by the British Academy, the British Academy Centenary Research Project (otherwise known as the Lucy Project). The main aim of the Lucy Project has been to explore these two axes in an integrated set of studies whose focus was to link archaeology and, in its broadest sense, evolutionary psychology, which offers powerful, new explanatory insights.
Description based on print version record.