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Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record
- Title
- Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record / edited by Wil Roebroeks.
- Publication
- [Leiden, Netherlands] : Leiden University Press, ©2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Roebroeks, Wil.
- Description
- 277 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- The human brain and its one hundred billion neurons compose the most complex organ in the body and harness more than 20 per cent of all the energy we produce. Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains, and how have we been able to afford such an expensive organ for thousands of years? Guts and Brains discusses the key variables at stake in such a question, including the relationship between brain size and diet, diet and social organization, and large brains and the human sexual division of labour.
- Uniform Title
- LUP academic
- Subject
- Prehistoric peoples > Food
- Brain > Evolution
- Human evolution
- Hominids
- Hunting and gathering societies > Nutrition
- Primates > Nutrition
- Primates > Behavior
- Human beings > Origin
- Evolution (Biology)
- Diet in disease
- Biological Evolution
- Brain > physiology
- Diet
- Hominidae
- Hominidae (family)
- evolution
- Diet in disease
- Brain > Evolution
- Hominids
- Human beings > Origin
- Human evolution
- Prehistoric peoples > Food
- Primates > Behavior
- Mensch
- Evolution
- Intelligenz
- Ernährung
- Fysische antropologie
- Mensen
- Physical anthropology
- Anthropology
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record / Wil Roebroeks -- Notes on the implications of the expensive tissue hypothesis for human biological and social evolution / Leslie C. Aiello -- Energetics and the evolution of brain size in early Homo / William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson and J. Josh Snodgrass -- The evolution of diet, brain and life history among primates and humans / Hillard S. Kaplan [and others] -- Why hominins had big brains / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Ecological hypotheses for human brain evolution : evidence for skill and learning processes in the ethnographic literature on hunting / Katharine MacDonald -- Haak en steek -- the tool that allowed hominins to colonize the African savanna and to flourish there / R. Dale Guthrie -- Women of the middle latitudes : the earliest peopling of Europe from a female perspective / Margherita Mussi -- The diet of early hominins : some things we need to know before "reading" the menu from the archaeological record / Lewis R. Binford -- Diet shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe? : the stable isotope evidence / Michael P. Richards -- The evolution of the human niche : integrating models with the fossil record / Najma Anwar [and others].
- ISBN
- 9789087280147
- 9087280149
- 9790000000000 (canceled/invalid)
- 9789048508051 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 354665
- OCLC
- ocn180982604
- SCSB-1445235
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library