Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14713879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R I M Dunbar (0000-0002-9982-9702, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 15-33 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0353-1589 • E-ISSN: 2334-8801 |
| Publisher | University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy - Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21301/eap.v3i3.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2619643945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
Although we share many aspects of our behaviour and biology with our primate cousins, humans are, nonetheless, different in one crucial respect: our capacity to live in the world of the imagination. This is reflected in two core aspects of our behaviour that are in many ways archetypal of what it is to be human: religion and story-telling. I shall show how these remarkable traits seem to have arisen as a natural development of the social brain hypothesis, and the underlying nature of primate sociality and cognition, as human societies have been forced to expand in size during the course of our evolution over the past 5 million years
Biology · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Human evolution · Natural (archaeology) · Primate · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · History · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology
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Social Components of Fitness in Primate Groups
Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans
Punishment in animal societies
Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
Primate Social Systems
The social brain hypothesis
A Preliminary Index of Social Development
The Relationship Closeness Inventory
Social network size in humans
Theory-of-mind deficits and causal attributions
An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England
The Evolution of Culture
Reproductive Decisions
The Evolution of Social Systems
The Social Brain
Social Markers and the Evolution of Reciprocal Exchange
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |