Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

Author: Clive Gamble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances - the ability to 'think big' - that drove the enlargement of...Read more