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:	York White Rose University Press 2022
Subjects:	Anthropology Archaeology Biology, life sciences Ecological science, the Biosphere Evolution Revolutionary groups & movements 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 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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