Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Forty Years On
Chapter 2: Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural Cognition
Chapter 3: Towards a Theory of Everything
Chapter 4: Sexual Insult and Femaie Militancy
Chapter 5: Who Sees the Elephant?
Chapter 6: From Metaphor to Symbols and Grammar
Chapter 7: Reconstructing a Source Cosmology for African Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 8: Sounds in the Night
Chapter 9: Human Physiology, San Shamanic Healing and the ‘Cognitive Revolution’
Chapter 10: Rain Serpents in Northern Australia and Southern Africa
Chapter 11: Bedouin Matrilineality Revisited
Chapter 12: ‘From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain’
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