Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes
Although we share many aspects of our behaviour and biology with our primate cousins, humans are, nonetheless, different in one crucial respect: our capacity to live in the world of the imagination. This is reflected in two core aspects of our behaviour that are in many ways archetypal of what it is...
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oai:doaj.org-article:a614f64872164dc5bbca3a3904fa46e72021-12-02T00:31:44ZWhy Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes0353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/a614f64872164dc5bbca3a3904fa46e72016-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/497https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801Although we share many aspects of our behaviour and biology with our primate cousins, humans are, nonetheless, different in one crucial respect: our capacity to live in the world of the imagination. This is reflected in two core aspects of our behaviour that are in many ways archetypal of what it is to be human: religion and story-telling. I shall show how these remarkable traits seem to have arisen as a natural development of the social brain hypothesis, and the underlying nature of primate sociality and cognition, as human societies have been forced to expand in size during the course of our evolution over the past 5 million years.Robin I.M. DunbarUniversity of BelgradearticleAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 15-33 (2016) |
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Although we share many aspects of our behaviour and biology with our primate cousins, humans are, nonetheless, different in one crucial respect: our capacity to live in the world of the imagination. This is reflected in two core aspects of our behaviour that are in many ways archetypal of what it is to be human: religion and story-telling. I shall show how these remarkable traits seem to have arisen as a natural development of the social brain hypothesis, and the underlying nature of primate sociality and cognition, as human societies have been forced to expand in size during the course of our evolution over the past 5 million years. |
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