دی‌ان‌ای اجتماعی: بازاندیشی در گذشتهٔ تکاملی ما

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 hunting economies, or to genetic platforms shared with contemporary apes. CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Some Givens Chapter 1. Perspectives on Anisogamy Chapter 2. First Families Chapter 3. Paleoecology and Emergence of Genus Homo Chapter 4. Paleolithic Dinner Pairings: Red or White? Chapter 5. Signature Hominin Traits Chapter 6. Kinship and Paleolithic Legends Chapter 7. Kinship as Social Technology Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Index Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection.