Most nonhuman primates prey on vertebrates. Meat-eating, defined as ingestion of
vertebrate tissue, occurs in 12 families,≥ 39 genera, and≥ 89 species. It is most common in …

Maintaining the balance between costs and benefits is challenging for species living in
complex and dynamic socio-ecological environments, such as primates, but also crucial for …

The social structure of primates has recently been shown to influence the composition of
their microbiomes. What is less clear is how primate microbiomes might in turn influence …

Consumption of animal-sourced food is an important factor in broadening the diet of early
hominins, promoting brain and body growth, and increasing behavioural complexity …

Selection and transport of materials for tools is ubiquitous throughout our species'
evolutionary history. Yet our understanding of early human material culture is heavily …

We analyze a new ethnographic and ethnohistoric database of quantitative cases (n= 139)
and qualitative information on a neglected form of forager subsistence—communal drive …

Lethal intergroup encounters occur in many species because of sexual selection. While
documented in mountain gorillas, they are absent in western gorillas as, instead, it is …

Conventional wisdom holds that when humans began acquiring meat on a regular basis,
whether by hunting or by scavenging, they became part of the large carnivore guild and, as …

Leopard diets in the Kasoje area of the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, were
analysed by inspecting prey remains in 256 scats. This area is unique as leopard density is …

What animals do we expect hunter-gatherers to harvest, and how should they acquire them?
These questions—framed in terms of environmental context, prey characteristics, size of the …