Over the course of millions of years, primates have been designed by natural selection for the proficient gathering and use of information. In this concise and insightful analysis, anthropologist King focuses on the acquisition of information through social modalities. Drawing on research in biological anthropology, animal behavior, psychology, and archaeology, The Information Continuum creates a synthetic view of the evolution of communication among primates. This much-needed interdisciplinary perspective relates studies of young primates in the wild to psychological studies of human communication, and archaeological research on life among the early hominids to contemporary biological anthropology.

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