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The Costs of Being a High-latitude Hominin
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This chapter examines the challenges that hominins occupying higher latitudes have had to deal with. More specifically, it analyses how hominins were able to maintain social networks over the larger geographic areas associated with decreasing population densities at higher latitudes, along with the mechanisms by which the largest encompassing groups can be maintained. The chapter first considers what the term ‘group’ means before discussing the apparent trends in hominin group size and social organisation over time. It then explains why it is important to maintain extended community networks and the cognitive and time budgeting challenges presented by higher latitudes. It also compares Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in terms of network sizes and in maintaining their extended social networks.
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“The capacity of singing to bond groups of relative strangers in humans may have played a crucial role in allowing modern humans to create and maintain much larger social networks than their evolutionary relatives, which in turn may have facilitated the colonization of risky environments across the globe [59].”
From The ice-breaker effect: Singing mediates fast social bonding (2015) · cites this paper as [59]
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The ice-breaker effect: Singing mediates fast social bonding
Pearce, E., Launay, J., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2015) · Royal Society Open Science · doi:10.1098/rsos.150221 · Cited by 507
“The capacity of singing to bond groups of relative strangers in humans may have played a crucial role in allowing modern humans to create and maintain much larger social networks than their evolutionary relatives, which in turn may have facilitated the colonization of risky environments across the globe [59].”
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Weinstein, D., Launay, J., Pearce, E., Dunbar, R. I. M., & Stewart, L. (2016) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.10.002 · Cited by 275
“In our evolutionary history, the discovery of such a technology may have led to better intergroup relationships between neighbouring bands, and so facilitated the evolution of large scale fission-fusion sociality (Dunbar, 2003; Dunbar, 2012; Pearce et al., 2014).”
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Spikins, P., Needham, A., Wright, B., Dytham, C., Gatta, M., & Hitchens, G. (2018) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.011 · Cited by 80
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- Authors
- Pearce, E., Shuttleworth, A., Grove, M., & Layton, R. H.
- Venue
- Lucy to Language
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2014-02-06
- Pages
- 356-379
- OpenAlex
- W1776035003
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 39.92
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Keywords
- social organization, Neanderthals, anatomically modern humans, time allocation, cognitive demand, population density
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