Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes

Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes

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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...

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Main Author: Robin I.M. Dunbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade 2016-03-01
Series:Etnoantropološki Problemi
Online Access:https://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/497
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spelling doaj-ed540949a04b44c6b6c1248a1dd4e6292020-11-25T00:45:19ZengUniversity of BelgradeEtnoantropološki Problemi 0353-15892334-88012016-03-0133Why Humans Aren’t Just Great ApesRobin I.M. Dunbar0Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology University of OxfordAlthough 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.https://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/497
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description 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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