Social Brain, Distributed Mind
Social Brain, Distributed Mind
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Abstract
To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition — the social brain — in mediating the changes in behaviour that we see in the archaeological record. This volume brings together two powerful approaches — the social brain hypothesis and the concept of the distributed mind. The volume compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. A particular focus is on the role that material culture plays as a scaffold for distributed cognition, and how almost three million years of artefact and tool use provides the data for tracing key changes in areas such as language, technology, kinship, music, social networks and the politics of local, everyday interaction in small-world societies. A second focus is on how, during the course of hominin evolution, increasingly large spatially distributed communities created stresses that threatened social cohesion. This volume offers the possibility of new insights into the evolution of human cognition and social lives that will further our understanding of the relationship between mind and world.
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Front Matter
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Part I Framing The Issues: Evolution of The Social Brain
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Part II The Nature of the Network: The Bonds of Sociality
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Social Networks and Social Complexity in Female-bonded Primates
Julia Lehmann and others
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Human Social Evolution: A Comparison of Hunter-gatherer and Chimpanzee Social Organization
Robert Layton andSean O'Hara
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Constraints on Social Networks
Sam G. B. Roberts
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Social Networks and Community in the Viking Age
Anna Wallette
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Social Networks and Social Complexity in Female-bonded Primates
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Part III Evolving Bonds of Sociality
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Deacon's Dilemma: The Problem of Pair-bonding in Human Evolution
Robin Dunbar
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The Evolution of Altruism via Social Addiction
Julie Hui andTerrence Deacon
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From Experiential-based to Relational-based Forms of Social Organization: A Major Transition in the Evolution of Homo sapiens
Dwight Read
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Networks and the Evolution of Socio-material Differentiation
Carl Knappett
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Deacon's Dilemma: The Problem of Pair-bonding in Human Evolution
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Part IV The Reach of the Brain: Modern Humans and Distributed Minds
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When Individuals Do Not Stop at the Skin
Alan Barnard
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Cliques, Coalitions, Comrades and Colleagues: Sources of Cohesion in Groups
Holly Arrow
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The Socio-religious Brain: A Developmental Model
Daniel N. Finkel and others
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Some Functions of Collective Forgetting
Paul Connerton
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What is Cognition? Extended Cognition and the Criterion of the Cognitive
Mark Rowlands
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When Individuals Do Not Stop at the Skin
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Part V Testing the Past: Archaeology and the Social Brain in Past Action
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Firing Up the Social Brain
John Gowlett
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A Technological Fix for ‘Dunbar's Dilemma’?
Lawrence Barham
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The Archaeology of Group Size
Matt Grove
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Fragmenting Hominins and the Presencing of Early Palaeolithic Social Worlds
John Chapman andBisserka Gaydarska
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Small Worlds, Material Culture and Ancient Near Eastern Social Networks
Fiona Coward
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Excavating the Prehistoric Mind: The Brain as a Cultural Artefact and Material Culture as Biological Extension
Steven Mithen
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Firing Up the Social Brain
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End Matter
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