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Thinking Big

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Thinking Big

By Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar

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About the book

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances - the ability to `think big' - that drove the enlargement of the human brain and the development of the human mind. This `social brain hypothesis', put ...Show more

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ISBN

9780500051801

Publisher

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

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Thinking Big

Format

Hardcover

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