Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Learning to use, make, and modify tools is key to our species’ success. Researchers have hypothesized that play with objects may have a foundational role in the ontogeny of tool use and, over evolutionary timescales, in cumulative technological ...
Sheina Lew-Levy +4 more
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The fitness costs and benefits of hunter-gatherer locomotor engagement [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesBipedalism is a distinguishing feature of our species and, as such, there has been much interest in the energetic costs and foraging returns of walking and running, especially among hunter-gatherer societies.
George Brill, Mark Dyble
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Hunter–gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Central-place foraging (CPF), where foragers return to a central location (or home), is a key feature of hunter–gatherer social organization. CPF could have significantly changed hunter–gatherers’ spatial use and mobility, altered social networks and ...
Ketika Garg +3 more
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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African descent who brought agriculture to the Luangwa valley in eastern Zambia ~2000 years ago.
Gwenna Breton +5 more
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Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Research in developmental psychology suggests that children are poor tool innovators. However, such research often overlooks the ways in which children's social and physical environments may lead to cross-cultural variation in their opportunities and ...
Sheina Lew-Levy +4 more
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Hunter–gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesMajor developments in the field of genetics in the past few decades have revolutionised notions of what it means to be human. Although currently only a few populations around the world practise a hunting and gathering lifestyle, this mode of subsistence ...
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Inez Derkx
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Natural selection and adaptive traits in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer society from Mainland Southeast Asia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAsia is home to diverse hunter-gatherer populations characterized by significant morphological, anthropological, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
Tobias Herzog +5 more
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Patterns of physical activity in hunter-gatherer children compared with US and UK children [PDF]
Scientific ReportsContemporary hunter-gatherers are highly active, but little is known about physical activity levels in hunter-gatherer children. We analysed 150 days of accelerometer data from 51 BaYaka hunter-gatherer children (aged 3–18) in the Republic of Congo ...
Luke Kretschmer +4 more
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Status does not predict stress: Women in an egalitarian hunter–gatherer society [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 It is widely believed that there is strong association between physiological stress and an individual's social status in their social hierarchy. This has been claimed for all humans cross-culturally, as well as in non-human animals living in social ...
Piotr Fedurek +9 more
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The genetic demographic history of the last hunter-gatherer population of the Himalayas. [PDF]
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