Hidden Depths

In Hidden Depths, Professor Penny Spikins explores how our emotional connections have shaped human ancestry. Focusing on three key transitions in human origins, Professor Spikins explains how the emotional capacities of our early ancestors evolved in response to ecological changes, much like simila...

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description In Hidden Depths, Professor Penny Spikins explores how our emotional connections have shaped human ancestry. Focusing on three key transitions in human origins, Professor Spikins explains how the emotional capacities of our early ancestors evolved in response to ecological changes, much like similar changes in other social mammals. For each transition, dedicated chapters examine evolutionary pressures, responses in changes in human emotional capacities and the archaeological evidence for human social behaviours. Starting from our earliest origins, in Part One, Professor Spikins explores how after two million years ago, movement of human ancestors into a new ecological niche drove new types of collaboration, including care for vulnerable members of the group. Emotional adaptations lead to cognitive changes, as new connections based on compassion, generosity, trust and inclusion also changed our relationship to material things. Part Two explores a later key transition in human emotional capacities occurring after 300,000 years ago. At this time changes in social tolerance allowed ancestors of our own species to further reach out beyond their local group and care about distant allies, making human communities resilient to environmental changes. An increasingly close relationship to animals, and even to cherished possessions, appeared at this time, and can be explained through new human vulnerabilities and ways of seeking comfort and belonging. Lastly, Part Three focuses on the contrasts in emotional dispositions arising between ourselves and our close cousins, the Neanderthals. Neanderthals are revealed as equally caring yet emotionally different humans, who might, if things had been different, have been in our place today. This new narrative breaks away from traditional views of human evolution as exceptional or as a linear progression towards a more perfect form. Instead, our evolutionary history is situated within similar processes occurring in other mammals, and explained as one in which emotions, rather than ‘intellect’, were key to our evolutionary journey. Moreover, changes in emotional capacities and dispositions are seen as part of differing pathways each bringing strengths, weaknesses and compromises. These hidden depths provide an explanation for many of the emotional sensitivities and vulnerabilities which continue to influence our world today.
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Focusing on three key transitions in human origins, Professor Spikins explains how the emotional capacities of our early ancestors evolved in response to ecological changes, much like similar changes in other social mammals. For each transition, dedicated chapters examine evolutionary pressures, responses in changes in human emotional capacities and the archaeological evidence for human social behaviours. Starting from our earliest origins, in Part One, Professor Spikins explores how after two million years ago, movement of human ancestors into a new ecological niche drove new types of collaboration, including care for vulnerable members of the group. Emotional adaptations lead to cognitive changes, as new connections based on compassion, generosity, trust and inclusion also changed our relationship to material things. Part Two explores a later key transition in human emotional capacities occurring after 300,000 years ago. At this time changes in social tolerance allowed ancestors of our own species to further reach out beyond their local group and care about distant allies, making human communities resilient to environmental changes. An increasingly close relationship to animals, and even to cherished possessions, appeared at this time, and can be explained through new human vulnerabilities and ways of seeking comfort and belonging. Lastly, Part Three focuses on the contrasts in emotional dispositions arising between ourselves and our close cousins, the Neanderthals. Neanderthals are revealed as equally caring yet emotionally different humans, who might, if things had been different, have been in our place today. This new narrative breaks away from traditional views of human evolution as exceptional or as a linear progression towards a more perfect form. Instead, our evolutionary history is situated within similar processes occurring in other mammals, and explained as one in which emotions, rather than ‘intellect’, were key to our evolutionary journey. Moreover, changes in emotional capacities and dispositions are seen as part of differing pathways each bringing strengths, weaknesses and compromises. 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spellingShingle Human demography
Group size
Lithic transfers
Raw material movements
Bonobos
Dog burial
Comfort
Symbolic objects
Symbolism
Mobiliary art
Attachment fluidity
Hypersociability
Human-animal relationships
Dog domestication
Attachment object
Approachability
Approach behaviour
Avoidance behaviour
Androgens
Physiological responses
Cognitive Archaeology
Autism Spectrum Condition
Handaxe
Biface
Neurodiversity
Palaeolithic stone tools
Evolution of neurodiversity
Rock art
Ice age art
Material Culture
Cultural transmission
Emotional commitment
Biopsychosocial approach
Social tolerance
Attachment
Genus Homo
Acheulian
Cultural evolution
Skeletal abnormality
Injury
Illness
Interdependence
Emotional sensitivity
Moral emotions
Evolution of Altruism
Hominins
Upper Palaeolithic
Lower Palaeolithic
Ecological niche
Selective pressure
Behavioural ecology
Wolves
Affective empathy
Cognitive empathy
Theory of mind
Human Cognition
Vulnerability
Evolutionary Psychology
Developmental psychology
Helping behaviours
Social cognition
Social mammals
Human Emotion
Human social collaboration
Generosity
Emotional brain
Social emotions
Comparative behaviour
Evolution
Social carnivores
Primate behavioural ecology
Primate social systems
Human Evolution
Human ancestors
Collaboration
Evolutionary Biology
Emotional vulnerability
Social connection
Decolonisation
Social networks
Middle Palaeolithic
Community resilience
Convergent evolution
Chimpanzee
Origin of modern humans
Social safeness
Wolf domestication
Cherished possessions
Compensatory attachment
Loneliness
Palaeolithic art
Stress reactivity
Bonding hormones
Humans
Hunter-gatherers
Intergroup collaboration
Tolerance
Emotional connection
Autism
Trust
Early Prehistory
Palaeopathology
Origins of healthcare
Human self-domestication
Palaeolithic Archaeology
Social brain
Care-giving
Empathy
Neanderthals
Compassion
Social Connection
Evolution of Emotions
Human Origins
Adaptation
Prehistory
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Spikins, Penny
Hidden Depths
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topic Human demography
Group size
Lithic transfers
Raw material movements
Bonobos
Dog burial
Comfort
Symbolic objects
Symbolism
Mobiliary art
Attachment fluidity
Hypersociability
Human-animal relationships
Dog domestication
Attachment object
Approachability
Approach behaviour
Avoidance behaviour
Androgens
Physiological responses
Cognitive Archaeology
Autism Spectrum Condition
Handaxe
Biface
Neurodiversity
Palaeolithic stone tools
Evolution of neurodiversity
Rock art
Ice age art
Material Culture
Cultural transmission
Emotional commitment
Biopsychosocial approach
Social tolerance
Attachment
Genus Homo
Acheulian
Cultural evolution
Skeletal abnormality
Injury
Illness
Interdependence
Emotional sensitivity
Moral emotions
Evolution of Altruism
Hominins
Upper Palaeolithic
Lower Palaeolithic
Ecological niche
Selective pressure
Behavioural ecology
Wolves
Affective empathy
Cognitive empathy
Theory of mind
Human Cognition
Vulnerability
Evolutionary Psychology
Developmental psychology
Helping behaviours
Social cognition
Social mammals
Human Emotion
Human social collaboration
Generosity
Emotional brain
Social emotions
Comparative behaviour
Evolution
Social carnivores
Primate behavioural ecology
Primate social systems
Human Evolution
Human ancestors
Collaboration
Evolutionary Biology
Emotional vulnerability
Social connection
Decolonisation
Social networks
Middle Palaeolithic
Community resilience
Convergent evolution
Chimpanzee
Origin of modern humans
Social safeness
Wolf domestication
Cherished possessions
Compensatory attachment
Loneliness
Palaeolithic art
Stress reactivity
Bonding hormones
Humans
Hunter-gatherers
Intergroup collaboration
Tolerance
Emotional connection
Autism
Trust
Early Prehistory
Palaeopathology
Origins of healthcare
Human self-domestication
Palaeolithic Archaeology
Social brain
Care-giving
Empathy
Neanderthals
Compassion
Social Connection
Evolution of Emotions
Human Origins
Adaptation
Prehistory
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topic_facet Human demography
Group size
Lithic transfers
Raw material movements
Bonobos
Dog burial
Comfort
Symbolic objects
Symbolism
Mobiliary art
Attachment fluidity
Hypersociability
Human-animal relationships
Dog domestication
Attachment object
Approachability
Approach behaviour
Avoidance behaviour
Androgens
Physiological responses
Cognitive Archaeology
Autism Spectrum Condition
Handaxe
Biface
Neurodiversity
Palaeolithic stone tools
Evolution of neurodiversity
Rock art
Ice age art
Material Culture
Cultural transmission
Emotional commitment
Biopsychosocial approach
Social tolerance
Attachment
Genus Homo
Acheulian
Cultural evolution
Skeletal abnormality
Injury
Illness
Interdependence
Emotional sensitivity
Moral emotions
Evolution of Altruism
Hominins
Upper Palaeolithic
Lower Palaeolithic
Ecological niche
Selective pressure
Behavioural ecology
Wolves
Affective empathy
Cognitive empathy
Theory of mind
Human Cognition
Vulnerability
Evolutionary Psychology
Developmental psychology
Helping behaviours
Social cognition
Social mammals
Human Emotion
Human social collaboration
Generosity
Emotional brain
Social emotions
Comparative behaviour
Evolution
Social carnivores
Primate behavioural ecology
Primate social systems
Human Evolution
Human ancestors
Collaboration
Evolutionary Biology
Emotional vulnerability
Social connection
Decolonisation
Social networks
Middle Palaeolithic
Community resilience
Convergent evolution
Chimpanzee
Origin of modern humans
Social safeness
Wolf domestication
Cherished possessions
Compensatory attachment
Loneliness
Palaeolithic art
Stress reactivity
Bonding hormones
Humans
Hunter-gatherers
Intergroup collaboration
Tolerance
Emotional connection
Autism
Trust
Early Prehistory
Palaeopathology
Origins of healthcare
Human self-domestication
Palaeolithic Archaeology
Social brain
Care-giving
Empathy
Neanderthals
Compassion
Social Connection
Evolution of Emotions
Human Origins
Adaptation
Prehistory
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