Radical Anthropology<p>In 'Egalitarianism made us the symbolic species', biosocial anthropologist <a href="https://c.im/tags/CamillaPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CamillaPower</span></a> opposes the idea that just anything goes in our evolution as Homo sapiens. While Graeber and Wengrow say about our speciation that ‘we have next to no idea what was happening’, we can be fairly confident about what wasn’t happening - patriarchy! This hypothesised trajectory of change in ‘dominance’ relations reflects change in brain size through Pleistocene Homo evolution. The very large brain sizes of the period of our speciation are predicted to associate with significant egalitarianism. Our anatomy, psychology and cognition provide evidence for constraints. The evolution of cooperative eyes, intersubjectivity, large brains, a ratchet effect of cultural accumulation and language itself needed stable, protracted periods in sociopolitical contexts of egalitarianism. Gender relations must be pivotal in the processes of increasing levels of social tolerance and aversion to inequity. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/biosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>biosocial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/brainsize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>brainsize</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/maternalenergetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>maternalenergetics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cognition</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/egalitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>egalitarian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cooperativechildcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cooperativechildcare</span></a> <br /><a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk</span><span class="invisible">/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.2</span></a></p>
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Radical Anthropology<p>Nice piece on <a href="https://c.im/tags/BrennaHassett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrennaHassett</span></a> 's new book 'Growing Up Human' </p><p>We would argue the <a href="https://c.im/tags/grandmothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>grandmothers</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/cooperativechildcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cooperativechildcare</span></a> (as per <a href="https://c.im/tags/SarahHrdy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SarahHrdy</span></a> ) emerge first before <a href="https://c.im/tags/monogamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monogamy</span></a> (which is pretty imperfect in humans anyway)</p><p><a href="https://www.sapiens.org/biology/strangest-things-evolution-childhood/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sapiens.org/biology/strangest-</span><span class="invisible">things-evolution-childhood/</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>In our view,, the most important and influential book on human evolution this century is Sarah Hrdy's 'Mothers and Others' (2009, Harvard UP). Hrdy, a longstanding <a href="https://c.im/tags/Darwinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Darwinian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>feminist</span></a> should be far better known than any of the Pinkers, Hararis, Wranghams et al. She is way more knowledgeable about what made us human.</p><p>The focus in 'Mothers and others' is on the evolution of our mutual-mindreading capacities -- which are really not there in other great apes. She roots this in babysitting -- human mothers hand over young infants to the care of diverse others. She argues the onset of such childcare practice would emerge early Pleistocene with H erectus. The outcome of ability to mesh emotional states preceded and was the foundation for <a href="https://c.im/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolution</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>language</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/evolutionaryanthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolutionaryanthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cooperativechildcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cooperativechildcare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/intersubjectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intersubjectivity</span></a> <br /> <br />Image description: cover of Mothers and others with a baby being lifted high in a carer's arms (who may not be actual mother)<br /><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Mothers_and_Others.html?id=dsiksDFQPDsC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.google.co.uk/books/about</span><span class="invisible">/Mothers_and_Others.html?id=dsiksDFQPDsC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false</span></a></p>
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