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A talent for friendship : an evolutionary view of a remarkable trait
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ISBN: 0199386463 9780199386468 9780199386451 0199386455 0199386471 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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This lively, provocative text presents a new way to understand friendship. Professor John Terrell argues that the ability to make friends is an evolved human trait not unlike our ability to walk upright on two legs or our capacity for speech and complex abstract reasoning. Terrell charts how this trait has evolved by investigating two unique functions of the human brain: the ability to remake the outside world to suit our collective needs, and our capacity to escape into our own inner thoughts and imagine how things might and ought to be. The text is richly illustrated and written in an engagi

Darwin and archaeology
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ISBN: 0313012946 9780313012945 9780897898782 0897898788 9780897898799 0897898796 0897898788 0897898796 1280930411 9781280930416 9786610930418 6610930414 9798400637810 Year: 2002 Publisher: Westport, Conn. Bergin & Garvey


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Studies in Culture Contact

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People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contac

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