The Origin of Human Social Institutions, 2001, 280 p., 16 ill., rel. -

These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is the central question in the study of human social evolution : how did the simple hunting and foraging bands of the Upper Paleolithic evolve into the institutionally complex societies of the Neolithic Revolution? The ideas presented here are a major addition to the widespread interest in evolutionary theory as applied to human behaviour.