Social brain, distributed mind
Gowlett, JohnContributor
Dunbar, R. I. MContributor
Gamble, CliveContributor
British Academy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
This volume explores how hominin 'brains' became recognizably human 'minds', comparing perspectives from the humanities social, and biological sciences. Ideas associated with the social brain hypothesis and the distributed mind allow us to envisage what might have happened in this crucial phase leading up to modern humans.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This volume explores how hominin 'brains' became recognizably human 'minds', comparing perspectives from the humanities social, and biological sciences. Ideas associated with the social brain hypothesis and the distributed mind allow us to envisage what might have happened in this crucial phase leading up to modern humans.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Evolutionary psychology
Brain
Human evolution
Social evolution
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Psychology
Social brain
Distributed mind