[HTML][HTML] Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation

P Fernandez-Velasco, HJ Spiers - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from
a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast …

Effects of evolution, ecology, and economy on human diet: insights from hunter-gatherers and other small-scale societies

H Pontzer, BM Wood - Annual Review of Nutrition, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We review the evolutionary origins of the human diet and the effects of ecology economy on
the dietary proportion of plants and animals. Humans eat more meat than other apes, a …

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation

S Fan, JP Spence, Y Feng, MEB Hansen, J Terhorst… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
We conduct high coverage (> 30×) whole-genome sequencing of 180 individuals from 12
indigenous African populations. We identify millions of unreported variants, many predicted …

Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups

D Deffner, D Mezey, B Kahl, A Schakowski… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Collective dynamics emerge from countless individual decisions. Yet, we poorly understand
the processes governing dynamically-interacting individuals in human collectives under …

Women's subsistence networks scaffold cultural transmission among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin

H Jang, CT Ross, AH Boyette, KRL Janmaat… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
In hunter-gatherer societies, women's subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning
and children's social learning but are understudied relative to men's activities. To …

Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans

F Saltré, J Chadœuf, T Higham, M Ochocki… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The ability of our ancestors to switch food sources and to migrate to more favourable
environments enabled the rapid global expansion of anatomically modern humans beyond …

The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies

TS Kraft, VV Venkataraman, IJ Wallace, AN Crittenden… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Relative to other great apes, humans have large brains, long life spans,
higher fertility and larger neonates, and protracted periods of childhood dependency and …

Reputation and socio-ecology in humans

A Romano, F Giardini, S Columbus… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reputation is a fundamental feature of human sociality as it sustains cooperative
relationships among unrelated individuals. Research from various disciplines provides …

Sex inequality driven by dispersal

Y Chen, E Ge, L Zhou, J Du, R Mace - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Inequality between the sexes is pervasive both outside and inside the home. One
contributing factor could be the dispersal of one sex at marriage that sets up sex-specific …

The evolution of human step counts and its association with the risk of chronic disease

DA Raichlen, DE Lieberman - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Walking—humans' most fundamental form of moderate intensity physical activity—is
associated with reduced risks of morbidity and mortality. Evolutionary perspectives have …