Apr 3, 2017 16:52
7 yrs ago
English term

homonin

English Social Sciences Anthropology homonin / hominin
Hi,
I was wondering whether “hominin” were synonymous with “homonin” in the following passage...
Thank you very much for any hint!

The social brain hypothesis argues that the complexities of * homonin *social life were responsible for driving the evolution of the early *hominin* brain from its essentially apelike beginnings to its modern form.
The theory offers a dynamic new perspective for exploring the evolutionary origins of fundamental social capabilities such as the formation of large, cooperating communities and the maintenance of high levels of intimacy and trust. Simultaneously, it informs on the specific cognitive abilities, such as theory of mind, that underpin these capabilities
(...)
“The notion of the distributed mind thus affords considerable potential for examining the socio-cognitive relationships structuring * homonin *and human societies...the extent to which cognition is gradually extended both into the material world and into the social world informs on the nature of what it is to be human”

taken from
Dunbar, R., Gamble, C., Gowlett, J. (Eds.). (2010). Social brain, distributed mind, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Discussion

haribert (asker) Apr 3, 2017:
Hi, first of all, thanks, Phil and Charles, for your help.
Actually, the passage of the book Social brain, distributed mind is quoted in another book and probably there has been a mistake in copying the text.
Also thanks to your remarks, I've finally been able to find a small part of the original text, and here it says "hominin social life" not "homonin" as in the quotation

https://books.google.it/books?id=v-weAQAAMAAJ&q="The theory ...

Thanks again!

Responses

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hominin

Looks like hominin is a spelling mistake.

"Is hominin a synonym of homonin?"The ultimate tongue twister.

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Note added at 32 mins (2017-04-03 17:25:27 GMT)
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Sorry, I meant "homonin is a spelling mistake".

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Note added at 46 mins (2017-04-03 17:39:43 GMT)
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Homonin gets 4,000 hits, many of which use both spellings in the same document, or are just junk. Hominin gets 650,000.
Note from asker:
Hi, Phil, thanks for your answer! Might it be that there are two different kinds of spelling for the same concept? because Homonin is repeated several times, while hominin just once...
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis : Seems odd to find it in an OUP book, but it's quite common. I've found no evidence that homonins and hominins are different things. I think homonin is an error. Maybe it was a variant spelling, but I doubt it, because all these terms begin "homi-".
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agree David Hollywood : https://www.britannica.com/animal/hominin Traducir esta página 4 may. 2010 - Hominin, Any member of the zoological “tribe” Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo ...
1 hr
agree Yvonne Gallagher
7 hrs
agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
11 hrs
agree acetran
17 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you very much for your help!"
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2 hrs

homínido

Me parece que es un error y sería ¨hominid¨, por el contexto
Peer comment(s):

agree acetran
15 hrs
Thanks, Acetran! I didn´t notice that it was rerquired in English.
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