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Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers [PDF]

Nature, 2012
Social networks show striking structural regularities, and both theory and evidence suggest that networks may have facilitated the development of large-scale cooperation in humans. Here, we characterize the social networks of the Hadza, a population of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania.
Apicella, Coren L, Marlowe, Frank W, Fowler, James H, Christakis, Nicholas A   +3 more
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Origin and diet of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers on the mediterranean island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily).

PLoS ONE, 2012
Hunter-gatherers living in Europe during the transition from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene intensified food acquisition by broadening the range of resources exploited to include marine taxa.
Marcello A Mannino, Giulio Catalano, Sahra Talamo, Giovanni Mannino, Rosaria Di Salvo, Vittoria Schimmenti, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Andrea Messina, Daria Petruso, David Caramelli, Michael P Richards, Luca Sineo   +11 more
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Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation

Evolutionary Psychology, 2017
Previous research with hunter-gatherers has found that women perceive men with voices manipulated to be lower in pitch to be better hunters, and men perceive women with lower pitch to be better gatherers. Here, we test if actual voice pitch is associated
Kristopher M. Smith, Yevgeniy M. Olkhov, David A. Puts, Coren L. Apicella   +3 more
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Variation in Rural African Gut Microbiota Is Strongly Correlated with Colonization by Entamoeba and Subsistence. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2015
The human gut microbiota is impacted by host nutrition and health status and therefore represents a potentially adaptive phenotype influenced by metabolic and immune constraints.
Elise R Morton, Joshua Lynch, Alain Froment, Sophie Lafosse, Evelyne Heyer, Molly Przeworski, Ran Blekhman, Laure Ségurel   +7 more
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Site Formation Processes and Hunter-Gatherers Use of Space in a Tropical Environment: A Geo-Ethnoarchaeological Approach from South India.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Hunter-gatherer societies have distinct social perceptions and practices which are expressed in unique use of space and material deposition patterns. However, the identification of archaeological evidence associated with hunter-gatherer activity is often
David E Friesem, Noa Lavi, Marco Madella, P Ajithprasad, Charles French   +4 more
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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups

Nature Communications
Sub-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, Lawrence Barham, George Mudenda, Himla Soodyall, Carina M. Schlebusch, Mattias Jakobsson   +5 more
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Gut Microbiome of Coexisting BaAka Pygmies and Bantu Reflects Gradients of Traditional Subsistence Patterns

Cell Reports, 2016
To understand how the gut microbiome is impacted by human adaptation to varying environments, we explored gut bacterial communities in the BaAka rainforest hunter-gatherers and their agriculturalist Bantu neighbors in the Central African Republic ...
Andres Gomez, Klara J. Petrzelkova, Michael B. Burns, Carl J. Yeoman, Katherine R. Amato, Klara Vlckova, David Modry, Angelique Todd, Carolyn A. Jost Robinson, Melissa J. Remis, Manolito G. Torralba, Elise Morton, Juan D. Umaña, Franck Carbonero, H. Rex Gaskins, Karen E. Nelson, Brenda A. Wilson, Rebecca M. Stumpf, Bryan A. White, Steven R. Leigh, Ran Blekhman   +20 more
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Genomic and dietary discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sicily

iScience, 2022
Summary: Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 prehistoric Sicilians covering the Mesolithic to Bronze Age ...
He Yu, Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Marcello A. Mannino, Sahra Talamo, Adam B. Rohrlach, Ainash Childebayeva, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Franziska Aron, Guido Brandt, Marta Burri, Cäcilia Freund, Rita Radzeviciute, Raphaela Stahl, Antje Wissgott, Helen Fewlass, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Marcello Piperno, Sebastiano Tusa, Carmine Collina, Vittoria Schimmenti, Rosaria Di Salvo, Kay Prüfer, Cosimo Posth, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Detlef Gronenborn, Didier Binder, Choongwon Jeong, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause   +28 more
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Crops, Cattle and Human DNA – The Motala Site and the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Östergötland, Southern Sweden

Current Swedish Archaeology, 2016
Palaeogenetic research has recently questioned the notion that the transition to agriculture in south- ern Scandinavia was initiated by local groups of hunter-gatherers who adopted the new economy at the onset of the Neolithic.
Göran Gruber, Tom Carlsson, Alexander Gill   +2 more
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Hunter‐gatherers as models in public health [PDF]

Obesity Reviews, 2018
SummaryHunter‐gatherer populations are remarkable for their excellent metabolic and cardiovascular health and thus are often used as models in public health, in an effort to understand the root, evolutionary causes of non‐communicable diseases. Here, we review recent work on health, activity, energetics and diet among hunter‐gatherers and other small ...
Pontzer, H, Wood, BM, Raichlen, DA
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