While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility
compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence …

Human children are frequently cared for by non-parental caregivers (alloparents), yet few
studies have conducted systematic alternative hypothesis tests of why alloparents help …

Non-maternal carers (allomothers) are hypothesized to lighten the mother's workload,
allowing for the specialized human life history including relatively short interbirth intervals …

Approaches to Palaeolithic art have increasingly shifted beyond the traditional focus on
engraved or depicted forms in isolation, to appreciating the sensorial experience of art …

A long-standing hypothesis suggests that the transition from hunting and gathering to
agriculture results in people working harder, spending more time engaged in subsistence …

Yearly, development-induced displacement affects some 20 million people, a
disproportionate share of whom are indigenous. Within the diverse category of indigenous …

Indigenous Peoples are exposed to the impacts of the climatic, ecological and
socioeconomic changes, yet there is a need for a better understanding of their health and …

Birds are useful indicators of biodiversity. Their bones have been used for reconstructing the
local environments and seasonality of human activity at Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic …

We discuss gendered division of labour in nuclear households as a bargaining problem,
where male and female partners bargain over labour inputs and resulting leisure time. We …

Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome
during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter …