Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 The occurrence of polygynous marriage in hunter–gatherer societies, which do not accumulate wealth, remains largely unexplored since resource availability is dependent on male hunting capacity and limited by the lack of storage. Hunter–gatherer societies
Nikhil Chaudhary +7 more
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Human Nature, 2019 There is a well-entrenched schism on the frequency (how often), intensity (deaths per 100,000/year), and evolutionary significance of warfare among hunter-gatherers compared with large-scale societies. To simplify, Rousseauians argue that warfare among prehistoric and contemporary hunter-gatherers was nearly absent and, if present, was a late cultural ...
R. Hames
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Ultra-deep sequencing of Hadza hunter-gatherers recovers vanishing gut microbes. [PDF]
Cell, 2023 Carter MM +11 more
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Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Neolithic (i.e., farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed two main routes, namely a sea route along the northern Mediterranean coast and
Joaquim Fort, Joaquim Pérez-Losada
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Evidence against the “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype in Hadza hunter gatherers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 People have an “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype whereby they make negative inferences about the moral character of people with craniofacial anomalies like scars.
Clifford I. Workman +3 more
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Emotion Perception in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 It has long been claimed that certain configurations of facial movements are universally recognized as emotional expressions because they evolved to signal emotional information in situations that posed fitness challenges for our hunting and gathering ...
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Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution: New Light on Old Debates [PDF]
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2018 One of the most persistent debates in anthropology and related disciplines has been over the relative weight of aggression and competition versus nonaggression and cooperation as drivers of human behavioral evolution.
Richard B. Lee
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Stable isotope analyses of amino acids reveal the importance of aquatic resources to Mediterranean coastal hunter-gatherers. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Fontanals-Coll M +6 more
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A Review of Japanese Ecological Anthropology on Central African Hunter-gatherers
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 Contemporary hunter-gatherers in central Africa face similar problems concerning their culture and environment: destruction of the forests that have been accommodating their unique forest-based culture, influences of market economy and consumerism, and ...
Mitsuo Ichikawa
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Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Theoretical models relating to the evolution of human behaviour usually make assumptions about the kinship structure of social groups. Since humans were hunter–gatherers for most of our evolutionary history, data on the composition of contemporary hunter–
Mark Dyble +3 more
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