Hidden Depths : : The Origins of Human Connection / / Penny Spikins.
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 similar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | York, U.K. : : White Rose University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 456 pages) :; illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter (pp. i-ii) - Table of Contents (pp. iii-viii)
- Acknowledgements (pp. ix-x)
- Foreword (pp. xi-xiv)
- Introduction (pp. 1-14)
- Part 1: Compassion, Generosity and Trust
- CHAPTER 1 The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity (pp. 17-70)
- CHAPTER 2 Material Evidence: caring for adult vulnerabilities (pp. 71-128)
- CHAPTER 3 Trust, Emotional Commitments and Reputation (pp. 129-168)
- Part 2: Tolerance, Sensitivity and Emotional Vulnerability
- [Part 2 Introduction] (pp. 169-170)
- CHAPTER 4 The Evolutionary Basis for Human Tolerance - Physiological Responses (pp. 171-220)
- CHAPTER 5 The Evolutionary Basis for Human Tolerance: human 'self-domestication'? (pp. 221-254)
- CHAPTER 6 Comforting Things: cherished possessions as sources of social comfort and security, from the Palaeolithic to the present (pp. 255-294)
- CHAPTER 7 In the Company of Wolves: compensatory attachments and the human-dog bond (pp. 295-340)
- Part 3: What If? : Exploring Different Human Pathways
- CHAPTER 8 What If? The Evolutionary Basis for Different Pathways (pp. 343-386)
- CHAPTER 9 Reframing Neanderthals (pp. 387-432)
- Conclusions (pp. 433-442)
- Index (pp. 443-456).