Social Anthropology and Human Origins

Social Anthropology and Human Origins - Alan Barnard

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle,...

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A ground-breaking book which sets out to answer all the big questions in the debate about our origins. Stringer is Britain's foremost expert on the...

The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers ta...

Reducere. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life o...

DescriptionDivine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowl...

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza,...

Reducere. "A glorious success...The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip" (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the...

An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a...

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Br...

In tracing the origins of the modern human-rights movement, historians typically point to two periods: the 1940s, in which decade the Universal Dec...

Reducere. Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, r...

Reducere. Ancient humans were peaceful - modern violence is avoidable. That's the basic message contained in "Saharasia, " a controversial "marriage of heres...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven MithenThe propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is wh...

DescriptionSomewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors....

Reducere. Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social a...