Big Brains and the Human Superorganism
Subtitle: Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781498540872
Subjects: Brain, evolution; Primates, evolution; Cognition
Description: This book examines why humans have big brains and how brains are associated with complex society and behavior in other animals. It compares brain evolution in social animals and examines the evolution of the human brain in social and historical contexts.