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Ecological variation and institutionalized inequality in hunter-gatherer societies. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance Persistent differences in wealth and power are pervasive in contemporary societies, yet were absent or muted for most of human history. To help explain how and why institutionalized hierarchy can arise in egalitarian systems, we examine a ...
Smith EA, Codding BF.
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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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Teaching in hunter–gatherer infancy [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 A debate exists as to whether teaching is part of human nature and central to understanding culture or whether it is a recent invention of Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic cultures.
Barry S. Hewlett, Casey J. Roulette
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Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Hunter-gatherers from different bands form fluid social networks that facilitate cultural innovation through recombination of cultural traditions. Although multilevel sociality is a universal feature of human social organization, its functional relevance
Migliano AB +11 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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Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory To the Present [PDF]
, 1989 It is widely assumed that modern hunter-gatherer societies lived until very recently in isolation from food-producing societies and states and practiced neither cultivation, pastoralism, nor trade.
Thomas N. Headland, Lawrence A. Reid
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Hunter-Gatherer Olfaction Is Special [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 People struggle to name odors [1-4]. This has been attributed to a diminution of olfaction in trade-off to vision [5-10]. This presumption has been challenged recently by data from the hunter-gatherer Jahai who, unlike English speakers, find odors as easy to name as colors [4].
Majid, Asifa, Kruspe, Nicole
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Links between environment, diet, and the hunter-gatherer microbiome [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2018 The study of traditional populations provides a view of human-associated microbes unperturbed by industrialization, as well as a window into the microbiota that co-evolved with humans.
Gabriela K. Fragiadakis +10 more
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Hunter-gatherer energetics and human obesity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Western lifestyles differ markedly from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and these differences in diet and activity level are often implicated in the global obesity pandemic.
Herman Pontzer +5 more
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DS 95: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019, 2019 This paper will explain the process and background of the Product Design Engineering (PDE) undergraduate project in collaboration with University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum.
Craig Whittet +3 more
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