TY - BOOK AU - Dunbar,R.I.M. AU - Gamble,Clive AU - Gowlett,John ED - British Academy. TI - Lucy to language: the benchmark papers SN - 9780191804700 (ebook) : AV - CC165 .L83 2014 U1 - 930.1 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Archaeology KW - Social archaeology KW - Evolutionary psychology KW - Brain KW - Evolution KW - Social evolution KW - Human evolution KW - Paleolithic period N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199652594.001.0001 ER -