{"product_id":"social-brain-distributed-mind-hardcover","title":"Social Brain, Distributed Mind - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Dunbar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eClive Gamble\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Gowlett\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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 behavior 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, and compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 uses 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Dunbar\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClive Gamble\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Geography at the Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow of the British Academy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Gowlett \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 548\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 x 9.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47359869780217,"sku":"9780197264522","price":178.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QHoCDlf6in9780197264522.webp?v=1769879513","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/social-brain-distributed-mind-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}