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How Compassion Made Us Human

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

How Compassion Made Us Human

By Penny Spikins

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About the book

Our capacity to care about the well-being of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us human. She takes us on a journey from the earliest stone age societies two million years ago to the lives of Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe, using archaeological evidence to illustrate the central role that emotional connections had in human ev...Show more

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9781781593103

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

How Compassion Made Us Human

Format

Hardcover

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