Big Brains and the Human Superorganism: Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals Caldararo Niccolo Leo
Big Brains and the Human Superorganism: Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals Caldararo Niccolo Leo This book examines why humans have big brains, what big brains enable us…
Specifikacia Big Brains and the Human Superorganism: Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals Caldararo Niccolo Leo
Big Brains and the Human Superorganism: Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals Caldararo Niccolo Leo
This book examines why humans have big brains, what big brains enable us to do, and how specialized brains are associated with eusociality in animals. This book whittles down the theories on brain size evolution to a few that represent testable hypotheses to identify logical and practical explanations for the phenomenon. It explores why brains expanded so slowly, and then why they stopped growing.
This data supports the idea that evolution of the brain in humans is the result of social interaction. At the core of this book is data derived from original, previously unpublished research on brain size in a number of social mammals. This book also traces the products of the social brain: ideology, religion, urban life, housing, and learning and adapting to dense complex social interactions.
It uniquely compares brain evolution in social animals across the animal kingdom, and examines the