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Analytical frames of reference in hunter-gatherer research / Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings -- Defining hunter-gatherers : Enlightenment, Romantic, and social evolutionary perspectives / Alan Barnard ...

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Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

In all of those posts, I emphasized the egalitarian, non-hierarchical nature of hunter-gatherer society. In today's post, I present three theories as to how hunter-gatherers maintained the egalitarian ...

The oft-used description of early humans as "hunter-gatherers" should be changed to "gatherer-hunters," at least in the Andes of South America, according to groundbreaking research led by a University ...

Human smell genes are still evolving, with hunter-gatherers retaining older variants and farming groups showing changes ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

For decades, scientists have believed that early humans had a division of labor: Men generally did the hunting and women did the gathering. And this view hasn't been limited to academics. It's often ...

People have taken various measures to keep from being sedentary, including activity monitors, standing desks, and smartphones and watches that prod us to get out of our chairs. All of that effort is ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their playful approach toward productive work; their ...