Extremes: The Evolution of Human Sociality

Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ' extreme' conditions of human existence and survival to examine how extremes have forced humans to change and how such extremes have determined the nature of society. This volume in The Evolution of Human Sociality series is the fourth (and final) book in a collaborative research project between primatologists and anthropologists. In seeking to understand human sociality, twenty-one authors focus ...