Social brain, distributed mind / edited by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

xviii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The social brain and the distributed mind / Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble & John Gowlett -- Technologies of separation and the evolution of social extension / Clive Gamble -- Herto brains and minds: behaviour of early Homo sapiens from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia / Yonas Beyene -- Social networks and social complexity in female-bonded primates / Julia Lehmann, Katherine Andrews & Robin Dunbar -- Human social evolution : a comparison of hunter-gatherer and chimpanzee social organization / Robert Layton & Sean O'Hara -- Constraints on social networks / Sam G. B. Roberts -- Social networks and community in the Viking Age / Anna Wallette -- Deacon's Dilemma : the problem of pair-bonding in human evolution / Robin Dunbar -- The evolution of altruism via social addiction / Julie Hui & Terrance Deacon -- From experiential-based to relational-based forms of social organization : a major transition in the evolution of Homo sapiens / Dwight Read -- Networks and the evolution of socio-material differentiation / Carl Knappett -- When individuals do not stop at the skin / Alan Barnard -- Cliques, coalitions, comrades and colleagues : sources of cohesion in groups / Holly Arrow -- The socio-religious brain : a development599 al model / Daniel N. Finkel, Paul Swartwout & Richard Sosis -- Some functions of collective forgetting / Paul Connerton -- What is cognition : extended cognition and the criterion of the cognitive / Mark Rowlands -- Firing up the social brain / John Gowlett -- A technological fix for 'Dunbar's Dilemma'? / Lawrence Barham -- The archaeology of group size / Matt Grove -- Fragmenting hominins and the presencing of early Palaeolithic social worlds / John Chapman & Bisserka Gaydarska -- Small worlds, material culture and ancient Near Eastern social networks / Fiona Coward -- Excavating the prehistoric mind : the brain as a cultural artefact and material culture as biological extension / Steven Mithen.