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04653aam a22004338i 4500 001 001085B2ECCF11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240712014356 008 150911t20152015nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015027697 020 $a 0465073891 (e-book) 020 $a 9780465073894 (e-book) 020 $a 0465038999 (hardback) 020 $a 9780465038992 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)905685955 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BKL $d IH7 $d ZLM $d OCLCO $d UOK $d VTL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GT2420 $b .A55 2015 082 00 $a 392.3/6019 $2 23 084 $a SCI089000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Allen, John S. $q (John Scott), $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Home : $b how habitat made us human / $c John S. Allen. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Basic Books, $c [2015] 300 $a 292 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a Feeling at home -- Nesting at home -- The stone age transition to home -- At home in a Neandertal's grave -- Can Homo economicus ever feel at home -- Without home -- Home improvement -- Epilogue: the story of home. 520 $a " Home is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen believes that the human habitat is one of the most important products of human cognitive, technological, and cultural evolution over the past two million years. In Home, Allen argues that to "feel at home" is more than just an expression, but reflects a deep-seated cognitive basis for the human desire to have, use, and enjoy a place of one's own. Allen addresses the very basic question: How did a place to sleep become a home? Within human evolution, he ranks house and home as a signature development of our species, as it emerged alongside cooperative hunting, language, and other critical aspects of humanity. Many animals burrow, making permanent home bases, but primates, generally speaking, do not: most wander, making nests at night wherever they might find themselves. This is often in home territory, but it isn't quite home. Our hominid ancestors were wanderers, too-so how did we, over the past several million years, find our way home? To tell that story Allen will take us through evolutionary anthropology, neuroscience, the study of emotion, and modern sociology. He examines the home from the inside (of our heads) out: homes are built with our brains as much as with our hands and tools. Allen argues that the thing that may have been most critical in our evolution is not the physical aspect of a home, but developing a feeling of defining, creating, and being in a home, whatever its physical form. The result was an environment, relatively secure against whatever horrors lurked outside, that enabled the expensive but creative human mind to reach its full flowering. Today, with the threat of homelessness, child foster-care, and foreclosure, this idea of having a home is more powerful than ever. In a clear and accessible writing style, Allen sheds light on the deep, cognitive sources of the pleasures of having a home, the evolution of those behaviors, and why the deep reasons why they matter. Home is the story about how humans evolved to create a space not only for shelter, but also for nurturing creativity, innovation, and culture-and why "feeling at home" is a fundamental aspect of the human condition. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Home is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen believes that the human habitat is one of the most important products of human cognitive, technological, and cultural evolution over the past two million years. In Home, Allen argues that to "feel at home" is more than just an expression, but reflects a deep-seated cognitive basis for the human desire to have, use, and enjoy a place of one's own"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index. 650 0 $a Home. 650 0 $a Home $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Place attachment. 650 7 $a Home. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959074 650 7 $a Place attachment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01743268 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806025337.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210024706.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160504043019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=001085B2ECCF11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search