Introduction

Part I: Setting the Stage

• Change from primate to hunter-gatherer forms of social organization involves:

  • Group sharing of spatially and temporally variable resources
  • Sharing between non-genetic kin achieved through culturally constituted kinship relations

• Definition of culture as mental constructs

Part II: Evolution of Mental Constructs

• Concept of Self and Concept of Mind

• Categorization and the Concept of Relation (relation concept)

• Properties of a relation concept and linkage to cooperative behavior

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