Hidden Depths The Origins of Human Connection

In Hidden Depths, Professor Penny Spikins explores how our emotional connections have shaped human ancestry. Focusing on three key transitions in human origins, Professor Spikins explains how the emotional capacities of our early ancestors evolved in response to ecological changes, much like simila...

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Main Author:	Spikins, Penny (auth)
Format:	Electronic Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	White Rose University Press 2022
Subjects:	Anthropology Archaeology Biology, life sciences Applied ecology Evolution Human figures depicted in art Psychology Human demography; Group size; Lithic transfers; Raw material movements; Bonobos; Dog burial; Comfort; Symbolic objects; Symbolism; Mobiliary art; Attachment fluidity; Hypersociability; Human-animal relationships; Dog domestication; Attachment object; Approachability; Approach behaviour; Avoidance behaviour; Androgens; Physiological responses; Cognitive Archaeology; Autism Spectrum Condition; Handaxe; Biface; Neurodiversity; Palaeolithic stone tools; Evolution of neurodiversity; Rock art; Ice age art; Material Culture; Cultural transmission; Emotional commitment; Biopsychosocial approach; Social tolerance; Attachment; Genus Homo; Acheulian; Cultural evolution; Skeletal abnormality; Injury; Illness; Interdependence; Emotional sensitivity; Moral emotions; Evolution of Altruism; Hominins; Upper Palaeolithic; Lower Palaeolithic; Ecological niche; Selective pressure; Behavioural ecology; Wolves; Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy; Theory of mind; Human Cognition; Vulnerability; Evolutionary Psychology; Developmental psychology; Helping behaviours; Social cognition; Social mammals; Human Emotion; Human social collaboration; Generosity; Emotional brain; Social emotions; Comparative behaviour; Evolution; Social carnivores; Primate behavioural ecology; Primate social systems; Human Evolution; Human ancestors; Collaboration; Evolutionary Biology; Emotional vulnerability; Social connection; Decolonisation; Social networks; Middle Palaeolithic; Community resilience; Convergent evolution; Chimpanzee; Origin of modern humans; Social safeness; Wolf domestication; Cherished possessions; Compensatory attachment; Loneliness; Palaeolithic art; Stress reactivity; Bonding hormones; Humans; Hunter-gatherers; Intergroup collaboration; Tolerance; Emotional connection; Autism; Trust; Early Prehistory; Palaeopathology; Origins of healthcare; Human self-domestication; Palaeolithic Archaeology; Social brain; Care-giving; Empathy; Neanderthals; Compassion; Social Connection; Evolution of Emotions; Human Origins; Adaptation; Prehistory
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