The Origins of Human Behaviour / Edition 1

by Robert Foley

Overview

This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780044450153
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/1990
Series:	One World Archaeology , #19
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction: investigating the origins of human behaviour, R.A. Foley; Chapter 1 Chimpanzee material culture: what are its limits and why?, W.C. McGrew; Chapter 2 How useful is the culture concept in early hominid studies?, R.A. Foley; Chapter 3 The significance of modern hunter-gatherers in the study of early hominid behaviour, Francis B. Musonda; Chapter 4 Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence, Thomas Wynn; Chapter 5 The invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems in the Upper Palaeolithic, Sheldon Klein; Chapter 6 An interactive growth model applied to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations, Ezra B.W. Zubrow; Chapter 7 Aboriginal fossil hominids: evolution and migrations, Phillip J. Habgood;