On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection
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Advanced Horticultural Societies
Agrarian Era
ancestor
Ape Evolution
apes
Arboreal Habitat
Author_Alexandra Maryanski
Author_Jonathan H. Turner
Behavioral Propensities
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common
cultural adaptation
Descent Rule
early
Economic Surplus
Entrepreneurial Mechanisms
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erectus
evolutionary anthropology
evolutionary origins of human society
Genus Paranthropus
great
habilis
hominids
Hominin Ancestors
homo
Homo Erectus
Homo Habilis
human behavioral ecology
Institutional Domains
kinship systems
Late Hominins
Late Miocene
Middle Miocene
Open Country Habitat
Open Country Savanna
Postindustrial Societies
pressures
primate social behavior
Selection Pressures
Settled Hunter Gatherers
Simple Horticultural Societies
sociocultural evolution
Spencerian Selection
Te Ch
Visual Sense Modality
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- ISBN 9781594515163
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these tensions only grew along with later, more complex-eventually colossal-sociocultural systems. The ape in us was not extinguished, nor obviated, by culture; indeed, our ancestry continues to place pressures on individuals and their sociocultural creations. Not just an exercise in history, this pathbreaking book dispels many myths about the beginning of society to gain new understandings of the many pressures on societies today.
Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski
