On the origin of societies
Subtitle: by natural selection
By: Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski.
Contributors: Maryanski, Alexandra.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781594515163
Subjects: Social history; Social groups; Social structure; Anthropology
Table of contents: title: A brief history of primate-time on earth; title: The weakness of weak ties; title: Societal protoplasm : in search of the primal horde; title: The strength of strong ties : a new basis of primate solidarity; title: The emergence of culture; title: The emergence of human society : hunting and gathering; title: The rise of horticulture; title: Agrarian societies; title: Industrial and post-industrial societies; title: Strangers in a strange land : evolved apes in sociocultural cages.