The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and cooperation in human evolution
Oxford University Press, £47.99 hb, 193 pp
Philosophy
Only cooperate
Evolutionary origins of social contracts
by Janna Thompson •
Archaeologists can tell us about the tools, diets, shelters, art, and burials of humans and other hominins who lived during the Pleistocene, the geological period lasting from two million to twelve thousand years ago. But what we most want to know is hidden from view. How did they communicate? What was it like to be them? How did they become us?
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