Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

by M Kay Martin

Book Overview

What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions. Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins - challenging models that trace our beginnings to traits shaped by ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789207576
• ISBN13: 9781789207576
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"