Social Brain, Distributed Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20002885 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R I M Dunbar (0000-0002-9982-9702), A Barnard (0000-0002-6394-2260, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 528 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Social brain, distributed mind (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | British Academy (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5871/bacad/9780197264522.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W83312967 |
| Open Library | OL24882307M |
| ISBN | 9780197264522 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 20 |
To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition — the social brain — in mediating the changes in behaviour that we see in the archaeological record. This volume brings together two powerful approaches — the social brain hypothesis and the concept of the distributed mind. The volume compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. A particular focus is on the role that material culture plays as a scaffold for distributed cognition, and how almost three million years of artefact and tool use provides the data for tracing key changes in areas such as language, technology, kinship, music, social networks and the politics of local, everyday interaction in small-world societies. A second focus is on how, during the course of hominin evolution, increasingly large spatially distributed communities created stresses that threatened social cohesion. This volume offers the possibility of new insights into the evolution of human cognition and social lives that will further our understanding of the relationship between mind and world
Cognition · Cognitive science · Data science · Epistemology · Kinship · Social cognition · Socially distributed cognition · Sociology · Anthropology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Neuroscience · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Beyin · Brain · Brain, evolution · Congresses · Evolution · Evolutionary psychology · Evrimi · Evrimsel psikoloji · Hominisation · Human evolution · İnsan evrimi · Social evolution · Sosyal evrim · Soziale Wahrnehmung
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A Cross-cultural Survey of On-site Fire Use by Recent Hunter-gatherers
The biocultural emergence of mindreading
“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue…” Ornaments in the Levantine Early Neolithic
Reconstructing Mesolithic social networks on the Iberian Peninsula using ornaments
The Overlooked Tradition of "Personal Music" and Its Place in the Evolution of Music
RECkoning with representational apriorism in evolutionary cognitive archaeology
Resilience and Redundance
Dreaming and Reality
Human Identity and the Evolution of Societies
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Managing Relationship Decay
Emotionalized AI and the meaningfulness gap
Modelling mechanisms of social network maintenance in hunter–gatherers
Thermal constraints on Middle Pleistocene hominin brain evolution and cognition
Upper Palaeolithic population histories of Southwestern France
Archaeologiques of sight
Ornamental traditions in the Eastern Adriatic
The demography of the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of Southwestern France
Network measures for dyadic interactions
Home range overlap as a driver of intelligence in primates
Baboon ( Papio anubis ) social complexity—a network approach
Social network analysis in the study of nonhuman primates
Evolution of Multilevel Social Systems in Nonhuman Primates and Humans
Variation in the Social Systems of Extant Hominoids
Excavations in the Acheulean Levels at the Earlier Stone Age Site of Canteen Koppie, Northern Province, South Africa
Male-female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis)
Do a few tools necessarily mean a few people? A techno-morphological approach to the question of group size at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel
The social organization of Homo ergaster
Identity, Kinship, and the Evolution of Cooperation
Altruism in social networks
Relationships and the social brain
Darwin's monkey
What's burning got to do with it? Primate foraging opportunities in fire‐modified landscapes
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory
The Future of Lithic Analysis in Palaeolithic Archaeology
Manipulative Use of Kin Terminology
An Evolutionary Developmental Approach to Cultural Evolution
Zoon Politikon
Human Evolution and the Archaeology of the Social Brain
Acheulian Cognition and Behavior at Gesher Benot YA‘Aqov
Pleistocene hominin dispersals, naïve faunas and social networks
The Anatomy of Friendship
The social dynamics of settling down
Social Anthropology
How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners
Beyond binary group categorization
Between social cognition and material engagement
Modalities of Abduction
Dunbar's Number
Networks of Knowledge, Materials, and Practice in the Neolithic Zagros
From Pleistocene to Holocene
Genesis of Symbolic Thought
Fire in the round
Cultural and Biological Transformations in the Middle Pleistocene Levant
Extension Problem
Warlike and Peaceful Societies
The Cambridge Guide to Homer
The Placental Steroid Hypothesis of Human Brain Evolution
Pre‐Pottery Clay Innovation in the Zagros Foothills
Materialidades, espacio, pensamiento
Psychoanalysis and the community – introductory considerations
Trypillia Megasites in Context
Human life as drama
Intersubjectivity, Empathy, Life-World, and the Social Brain
Earliest fire in Africa
Human Evolution, Niche Complexity, and the Emergence of a Distinctively Human Imagination
The anthropology of deep history
The Kung San
Origins and Revolutions
The Faculty of Language
Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans
Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past
The developmental cycle in domestic groups
Social origins
The !Kung of Nyae Nyae
Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
Configurations of Culture Growth
The social brain hypothesis
Naven
The Evolution of Culture
Kinship, language and production
"Do We Need a"Superorganic
The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis
Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language
Universal systems of kin categorization
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,38 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |