12. Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword xv
7. Preface xvii
8. 1 Introduction: The Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture 1
9. 2. When Did We Become Human? Evolutionary Perspectives on the Emergence of the Modern Human Mind, Brain, and Culture 45
10. 3. What Genetics Can Tell Us about the Origins of the Modern Human Brain 91
11. 4. The Primate Mind before Tools, Language, and Culture 105
12. 5. Functions of Premotor Cortices: From Motor Control to Social Cognition 123
13. 6. The Origins of Human Cooperation from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective 149
14. 7. Mimesis Theory Re-Examined, Twenty Years after the Fact 169
15. 8. The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language 193
16. 9. The Cathedral Model for the Evolution of Human Cognition 217
17. 10. Cognition, Behavioral Modernity, and the Archaeological Record of the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic 235
18. 11. Rethinking Paleoanthropology: A World Queerer Than We Supposed 263
19. 12. Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action 303
20. 13. The Distinctively Human Mind: The Many Pillars of Cumulative Culture 325
21. 14. Human Culture Is More than Memes and Transmission 347
22. References Cited 379
23. Index 465