Niccolo Caldararo: 3 books
by Niccolo Caldararo
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Avoiding disease certainly has value to the individual in escaping pain, suffering and death. It would seem obvious that mechanisms would evolve to enhance the ability of an individual to recognize and avoid contact leading to infection or exposure to infection. Social animals especially display evidence...
The Anthropology of Complex Economic Systems
Inequality, Stability, and Cycles of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Today we live in what Ulrich Beck has aptly characterized as a “risk society” shaped by intensifying crises outside of our control and seemingly outside of our comprehension. The master narrative that was supposed to lead us to secular salvation—economics—has proved to be a large part of the...
Big Brains and the Human Superorganism
Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book examines why humans have big brains, what big brains enable us to do, and how specialized brains are associated with eusociality in animals. It explores why brains expanded so slowly, and then why they stopped growing. This book whittles down the theories on brain size evolution to a few...