Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these tensions only grew along with later, more complex-eventually colossal-sociocultural systems. The ape in us was not extinguished, nor obviated, by culture; indeed, our ancestry continues to place pressures on individuals and their sociocultural creations. Not just an exercise in history, this pathbreaking book dispels many myths about the beginning of society to gain new understandings of the many pressures on societies today.
- ISBN10 1612054005
- ISBN13 9781612054001
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 30 August 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Paradigm Publishers
- Format eBook
- Pages 376
- Language English