ANTH 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robin Dunbar, Grey Matter, Bipedalism
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 3470 08/03/16 lecture 7: chimpanzee politics, part 1. Final paper: holistically situated apply anthropology to topic, several factors relevant to understanding it include place of primates in anthropology article. Driving force between complex primate brains is the need to engage and navigate the complex social world that we find ourselves in the size of the brain is directly related to the size of neocortex. Evolution of encephalization and bipedalism results in the birth of immature neonates. Lucy was essentially the size of a bipedal chimpanzee. Birth of immature neonates cause an increase in parental investment and contact, parental care extending through to adolescence and eventually the emergence of a more durable parental bond and an increased dependence on learning and cultural adaptation. Traditional explanations: to be ecological problem-solving, technologically inventive. Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis: bryne and whyten 1988 proposed this however, the problem is, it has all the negative traits associated with it.
