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How Compassion Made Us Human: The Evolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust and Morality
Penny Spikins
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Description for How Compassion Made Us Human: The Evolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust and Morality
Hardback. The first book to combine the idea that our early ancestors did care for one another in an unselfish way with archaeological evidence. It is the evolution of compassionate and emotional thoughts which has shaped us as humans. It allows the reader to see the emotional similarities between themselves and their very early ancestors for the first time. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 604.
Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us human. She takes us on a journey from the earliest stone age societies two million years ago to the lives of Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe, using archaeological evidence to illustrate the central role that emotional connections had in human evolution. Simple acts of kindness left to us from millions of years ago provide evidence for how social ... Read more
Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us human. She takes us on a journey from the earliest stone age societies two million years ago to the lives of Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe, using archaeological evidence to illustrate the central role that emotional connections had in human evolution. Simple acts of kindness left to us from millions of years ago provide evidence for how social ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
604g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781593103
SKU
V9781781593103
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About Penny Spikins
Penny has travelled a lot in her career, gaining her PhD from Cambridge University before working in the Pennines, underwater sites in the North-East of England and Argentina. Penny has spent over two years 'in the field' working within commercial archaeology as well as working in various academic institutions before taking up the position of Senior Lecturer in Early Prehistory ... Read more
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