Culture
Subtitle: growing brain size and cerebral cortical surface--Genus Homo
By: Antonio Santangelo.
Publisher: Sabaini
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Brain -- Evolution.; Human evolution.; Social evolution.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Culture, growing brain size and cerebral cortical surface, genus homo, introduction; title: Chopping tools as "useful possessions" : a qualitative jump in thought processing; title: Chopping tools as "useful possessions" : a Pliocene tool behavior leading to bigger brain size selection (and connected ability for culture); title: Tentative explanation for "handedness" (e.g. right-handedness) in hominids : a hypothesis, "digging sticks"; title: Growing cerebral surface area and its relation to culture.