Lucy to language : the benchmark papers
Dunbar
Dunbar, R. I. MContributor
Dunbar, R. I. MEditor
Gamble, CliveContributor
Gamble, CliveEditor
Gowlett, JohnContributor
Gowlett, JohnEditor
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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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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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Mind the gap : or Why humans aren't just great apes / R.I.M. Dunbar -- The social brain and the shape of the Palaeolithic / Clive Gamble, J.A.J. Gowlett, and R.I.M. Dunbar -- The social brain hypothesis : an evolutionary perspective on the neurobiology of social behavior / Susanne Shultz and R.I.M. Dunbar -- Hominin cognitive evolution : identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record / Susanne Shultz, Emma Nelson, and R.I.M. Dunbar -- The identity model : a theory to access visual display and hominin cognition within the Palaeolithic / James Cole -- The longest transition or multiple revolutions? : curves and steps in the record of human origins / J.A.J. Gowlett -- Relationships and the social brain : integrating psychological and evolutionary perspectives / Alistair Sutcliffe, R.I.M. Dunbar, Jens Binder, and Holly Arrow -- Close social relationships : an evolutionary perspective / S.B.G. Roberts, Holly Arrow, Julia Lehmann, and R.I.M. Dunbar -- The brain opioid theory of social attachment : a review of the evidence / A.J. Machin and R.I.M. Dunbar -- Time as an ecological constraint / R.I.M. Dunbar, A.H. Korstjens, and Julia Lehmann -- Unravelling the function of community-level organization / Julia Lehmann, Phyllis Lee, and R.I.M. Dunbar -- Fireside chat : the impact of fire on hominin socioecology / R.I.M. Dunbar and J.A.J. Gowlett -- Bridging the bonding gap : the transition from primates to humans / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Evolution of primate social systems : implications for hominin social evolution / Susanne Shultz, Christopher Opie, Emma Nelson, Q.D. Atkinson, and R.I.M. Dunbar -- 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, Amanda H. Korstjens, and J.A.J. Gowlett -- The costs of being a high-latitude hominin / Eiluned Pearce, Andrew Shuttleworth, Matt Grove, and R.H. Layton -- Communities on the edge of civilization / Fiona Coward and R.I.M. Dunbar -- The elements of design form in Acheulean bifaces : modes, modalities, rules and language / J.A.J. Gowlett -- Why only humans have language / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Social origins : sharing, exchange, and kinship / Alan Barnard -- Big brains, small worlds : material culture and the evolution of mind / Fiona Coward and Clive Gamble.
Archaeology
Social archaeology
Evolutionary psychology
Brain
Social evolution
Human evolution
Paleolithic period
Central Nervous System
Mental Processes
Biological Processes
Anthropology, Cultural
Behavioral Sciences
Genetic Processes
Genetic Phenomena
Biological Phenomena
Anthropology
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Nervous System
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Phenomena and Processes
Anatomy
Psychiatry and Psychology
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Archaeology
Biological Evolution
Brain
Cognition
Psychology
History & Archaeology
Archaeology