Overview
Explicit attempt to examine the evolutionary origins of traits that are found in all human societies (human universals)
Helps to identify the traits that we share with other primates as well as the traits that distinguish us from other primates so that we gain a deeper insight into what it means to be human
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Politics & Power
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Intergroup Relationships
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Language, Thought & Communication
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“This edited, 22-chapter volume organizes contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines … to address the origins and evolution of human universals--specifically, those behavioral and cognitive features that make humans a distinct species from other primates. … In looking for evidence of both convergence and common descent in specific traits, as is common in comparative primatology, contributors make a very strong effort to evaluate the available evidence for evolutionary continuity in human social behavior. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (R. A. Delgado Jr., Choice, Vol. 47 (11), August, 2010)
“Mind the Gap, Tracing the Origins of Human Universals … a collection of contributions dealing with the issue of human uniqueness from a multidisciplinary perspective. … Mind the Gap brings together most of the ‘hot’ topics in primatology, along with interesting contributions from cultural anthropology, and, notably, draws our attention to two critical and frequently omitted aspects of comparative research, namely the importance of studying species that are evolutionarily distant from humans, and not only the great apes, and the need for more cross-cultural research.” (Elsa Addessi, Metascience, Vol. 20, 2011)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mind the Gap
Book Subtitle: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals
Editors: Peter M. Kappeler, Joan Silk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02725-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-02724-6Published: 19 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-02725-3Published: 09 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 504
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Cultural Studies, Popular Science, general, Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology