| Title |
Mind the gap : tracing the origins of human universals / Peter M. Kappeler, Joan B. Silk, editors. |
| OCLC |
428029924 |
| ISBN |
9783642027246 (pbk.) |
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3642027245 (pbk.) |
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9783642027253 (ebook) |
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3642027253 (ebook) |
| Publisher |
Berlin ; London ; New York : Springer, [2010] |
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©2010 |
| Description |
xix, 503 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Social evolution.
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Social evolution in animals.
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Human behavior.
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Human evolution.
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Primates -- Behavior.
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Primates -- Evolution.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Primate behavior and human universals : exploring the gap / Peter M. Kappeler ... [et al.] -- The deep structure of human society : primate origins and evolution / Bernard Chapais -- Conflict and bonding between the sexes / Ryne A. Palombit -- The unusual women of Mpimbwe : why sex differences in humans are not universal / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- Dominance, power, and politics in non-human and human primates / David P. Watts -- Human power and prestige systems / Aimée M. Plourde -- The end of the republic (human reproductive strategies) / Laura Betzig -- Intergroup aggression in primates and humans : the case for a unified theory / Margaret C. Crofoot and Richard W. Wrangham -- Why war? : motivations for fighting in the human state of nature / Azar Gat -- From grooming to giving blood : the origins of human altruism / Joan B. Silk and Robert Boyd -- Evolved irrationality? : equity and the origins of human economic behavior / Venkat Lakshminarayanan and Laurie R. Santos -- From whence the captains of our lives : ultimate and phylogenetic perspectives on emotions in humans and other primates / Daniel M.T. Fessler and Matthew Gervais -- Primate communication and human language : continuities and discontinuities / Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth -- Language, lies and lipstick : a speculative reconstruction of the African Middle Stone Age 'human revolution' / Chris Knight -- Brain and behaviour in primate evolution / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- The gap is social : human shared intentionality and culture / Michael Tomasello and Henrike Moll -- The evolution and development of human social cognition / David F. Bjorklund, Kayla Causey, and Virginia Periss -- Deceit and self-deception / Robert Trivers -- Human universals and primate symplesiomorphies : establishing the lemur baseline / Claudia Fichtel and Peter M. Kappeler -- Ape behavior and the origins of human culture / Andrew Whiten -- The coevolution of genes, innovation, and culture in human evolution / Richard McElreath -- Mind the gap : cooperative breeding and the evolution of our unique features / Carel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart. |
| General note |
Based on papers presented at the Sixth Göttinger Freilandtage held in Dec. 2007 in Göttingen, Germany. Cf. acknowledgments. |
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