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Haneul Jang

@haneuljang.bsky.social
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Anthropologist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, knowledge transmission and mother-child health among BaYaka foragers in the Congolese rainforest Research scientist @ird-fr.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/haneuljang

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey fieldworkers! Do you need documentation (health & safety protocols, codes of conduct, feedback forms)? Do you have documentation that you think could help others do better fieldwork, but don’t know where to share it? We’ve got you covered in our new Fieldwork Repo! osf.io/4h7bu/overview
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hi #WplusEBS! Interested in joining our October 5th writing group? See the attached flyer for more info & fill out this google form to receive a zoom link: forms.gle/RCkH3XaCF3Lq... Not a member yet? Join here: tinyurl.com/3svhmrn3
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is great advice from @kensycoop.bsky.social -- for all stages of the scientific life!
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Félicie Dhellemmes @felicie-dhellemmes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Proud to present our latest work "Tracking human foragers and their prey reveals adaptive predator-prey dynamics", now hosted on BioRxiv! 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social @alexschakowski.bsky.social @dominikdeffner.bsky.social
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T Revathe @revathe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
!! New in @science.org !! How do animals learn broad skills necessary for survival in the wild? Our latest study on wild Sumatran orangutans at Suaq provides answers. 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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How 8 years of social and individual learning interact to shape ecological competence in orangutans
Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Using a 3D immersive-reality group experiment, we show how people integrate dynamically changing personal and social cues in realistic environments, resulting in either collective intelligence or maladaptive behavior! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sarah Hrdy has posted the final chapter of her book, Father Time, online: "So far as man’s evolutionary birthright is concerned, protecting and caring for offspring is as much a part of it as is competing or fighting with rivals or infanticide" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Twenty-First-Century Convergence of Men and Babies - Chapter 12 Father Time (summary)
PDF | On Jan 1, 2024, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy published Twenty-First-Century Convergence of Men and Babies - Chapter 12 Father Time (summary) | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself. @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Call for papers
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Don't sleep on this opportunity to join my former department. The Department of Methodology at LSE is a great place to work, and London is a great place to live.
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We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/09/2026
“You do not need to know everything before you can help someone else learn.” #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4r3qpyf
When I told my students I’m still learning their language, they started to open up about their challenges, too
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Daniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy to share our new paper in @royalsociety.org with Arleyns, Danier HM & Cody Ross! Combining network data with beh. economic games in four rural villages in Colombia, we assessed how prestige and dominance were associated with cooperation—focussing on whether dominance levelling would occur.
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Social and economic consequences of prestige and dominance in rural Colombian social networks
Abstract. Social status regulates influence and well-being in most social animals. In humans, social status can be attained via distinct routes: prestige (
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Human caregiving systems should be understood as flexible combinations of interrelated components—including maternal, allomaternal, and peer-based care—shaped by ecological, social, and developmental factors”
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New preprint! 💙 Together with @amandinevisine.bsky.social, we observed that BaYaka hunter-gatherer women and girls flexibly alternate between childcare and subsistence responsibilities during foraging trips, a pattern we call “relay cooperation” osf.io/preprints/so...
 Schematic illustration of the relay cooperation mechanism
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
modern couples with kids, try this. i feel like that's what my wife and I did/do, without calling it that. also: develop communication about the trade-off complexity, tempo, and balance. it's also good for your marriage! i knew couples with rigidly accounting around 50/50. that's poison.
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New preprint! 💙 Together with @amandinevisine.bsky.social, we observed that BaYaka hunter-gatherer women and girls flexibly alternate between childcare and subsistence responsibilities during foraging trips, a pattern we call “relay cooperation” osf.io/preprints/so...
 Schematic illustration of the relay cooperation mechanism
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✨ Introducing the #WplusEBS member spotlight! ✨ Each month we'll feature a member and something they're excited about — a paper, project, recent accomplishment, etc. Want to be featured? DM us! Or check your DMs...we might already be reaching out 👀 Not a member yet? Join via the link in bio!
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New paper 💙 Together with Ayana Tanaka, Shun Hongo, and Akira Takada, we compared early childhood caregiving among !Xun in Namibia and Baka in Cameroon, showing how maternal care and care from others come together across the two hunter-gatherer populations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Reframing Mother–Child Closeness and Cooperative Caregiving: A Comparative Study of Two Hunter‐Gatherer Populations
Objectives Caregiving during early childhood emerges from a dynamic interplay between maternal and allomaternal contributions. This study aimed to challenge polarized portrayals of hunter-gatherer c...
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
LOVING the #mentorship feedback we're getting! 💚 Follow up question: Would you prefer matching based on career stage, or lived experience — e.g., minoritised identity, new parenthood, international researcher status, research area? Drop your thoughts in our DMs or comment below 👇 #WplusEBS
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New preprint 🚨 Traditionally, the Hadza lived as mobile hunter-gatherers, moving camps several times per year. Today this is changing - but why? We show that subsistence transition offers multiple pathways to food security. Families who move less are *substantially* more food secure.
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Moving On From Movement: Sedentism Provides a Key Pathway to Food Security for Hadza Hunter-Gatherers
Extensive discussion attends to the disadvantages of shifting from mobile hunter-gatherer subsistence  to sedentary living. Fewer studies have investigated
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We all know that land leeches are incredibly annoying. In our new paper, we ask: could they also transmit disease? Perhaps so, though local peoples do not seem to recognize them as disease vectors. academic.oup.com/trstmh/advan...
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Ethno-etiology meets virology: land leeches (family: Haemadipsidae) as potential disease vectors
AbstractObjectives. Hematophagous terrestrial leeches are common in rainforest habitats and widely regarded as pests. Despite limited research, circumstant
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Reena Debray @reenadebray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Postdoc position coadvised by me, @jennytung.bsky.social, and Dr. Mercy Akinyi at the @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study microbiome transmission between humans, livestock, and wildlife in the Tana River Region of Kenya. More information and application link here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
A chimp solving a puzzle box problem. Photo credit: MPI-EVA
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Permanent lecturer position for a forensic anthropologist at our department!
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are accepting expressions of interest or short abstracts (200 words) for both issue 1 and issue 2 until 31 August 💙 For further information or any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at haneul.jang@ird.fr or the editorial team at hgreditor+se@gmail.com
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...
Postdoc and PhD positions at MPIAE in Frankfurt
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Urban Vervet Project @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social
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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Job posting: Associate Professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at the University of Lausanne. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2026: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... (there is a button to switch to English at the top right)
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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Horizon MSCA Postdoc fellowship deadline is approaching: url-shortener.me/OLZ3 If ur a postdoc interested in endangered primate (Barbary macaque) genomics, we (www.plasticprimateslab.com) have a lot data ready to go + more samples on the way! Pls get in touch before 10 August if interested.
Barbary macaque infant reaching out while being groomed
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Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...
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Polyadic grooming in primates
survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species
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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
On the tail of the announcement of my new Behavioural Conservation group at @idiv-research.bsky.social, I can also say... I'm hiring! We're looking for a Project Assistant (60% FTE) to join our "Conserving Cultures" project. Job posting: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...
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Project Assistant (m/f/d/x)
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Do you study human ecology, human behavior, or human institutions? Is your work relevant to climate change, adaptation, or sustainability? Join us at Stanford! 🌲🤓🌲 My department will be running a junior search in Environmental Behavioral Sciences this year. Happy to answer any questions.
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Assistant Professor in Environmental Social Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (Environmental Behavioral Sciences) - Stanford University, California, United States
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. The scope of t...
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🗳️ W+EBS elections are coming up! We're voting for two positions: Chair Elect and Secretary. Ballots go out by email tomorrow to #WplusEBS members only and are due July 31st. Not a member yet? Join before the ballot drops to make sure you get your vote 👇 linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs
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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...
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Revisiting Man the Hunter - HBES
– by Haneul Jang For decades, the phrase Man the Hunter has occupied a central place in discussions of human evolution. Today, however, the phrase sounds outdated, evoking a familiar image of men hunt...
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
1/ Some very nice CCE news 📢 A new Philosophical Transactions B theme issue on The evolution of collective intelligence is out, co-edited by @replicatedtypo.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social 🧠🧬👇
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Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New paper alert: How were Kenyan herders affected by the worst drought in 40 years? Health impacts were universal. Whether herders searched for pasture with their animals or stayed close to home, everyone remembers experiencing headaches, stress, and hopelessness. 1/4
Elders work closely with RAs Bowman, David, and Magarre to identify where water sources and settlements are near their community
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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New study reveals children drive cultural change - Durham University
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are accepting expressions of interest or short abstracts (200 words) for both issue 1 and issue 2 until 31 August 💙 For further information or any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at haneul.jang@ird.fr or the editorial team at hgreditor+se@gmail.com
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Haneul will be editing a double special issue for HGR, alongside @ceciliapad.bsky.social. The first issue will foster intergenerational dialogue and critical reflections while the second will put perspectives from local researchers in the spotlight. bsky.app/profile/hane...
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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 05/07/2026
In her blogpost on the paper we jointly co-authored on the significance of Man the Hunter, Haneul does a better job explaining the significance of Man the Hunter than we did in our paper on the significance of Man the Hunter (if that makes any sense!). Check it out #BioAnth 🧪
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Wonderful blog here from Haneul which aptly expresses why so many hunter-gatherer experts, at different career stages and with very different research programmes and theoretical perspectives/commitments, felt compelled to collaborate on the Meaning of MTH paper.
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...
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Revisiting Man the Hunter - HBES
– by Haneul Jang For decades, the phrase Man the Hunter has occupied a central place in discussions of human evolution. Today, however, the phrase sounds outdated, evoking a familiar image of men hunt...
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
For inquiries and submissions, please write to hgreditor+se@gmail.com or contact the Special Issue editors, Cecilia (@ceciliapad.bsky.social) and me.
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🧵 Issue 2: Local and Hunter-Gatherer Voices We invite contributions from local researchers, Indigenous scholars, and hunter-gatherer community members to broaden perspectives in H-G research. Formats: 🌱Dialogues 🌱Collaborative Contributions 🌱Reflections rooted in local knowledge & lived experience
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🧵 Issue 1: Scholarly Reflections & Intergenerational Dialogues We invite reflections, reminiscences, and conversations from senior scholars on the challenges, lessons & future directions of H-G research. Formats: 🌱Scholarly Memoirs 🌱Structured Interviews 🌱Reflections for the Next Generation
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hunter-Gatherer Studies has a long intellectual history. For this special issue, lead by the indefatigable & inimitable @ceciliapad.bsky.social & @haneuljang.bsky.social, we will be taking (critical) stock of that history by fostering inter-generational dialogue between early- & late-career scholars
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚨NEW SPECIAL ISSUE SERIES OF HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH🚨Celebrating and critically reflecting on the history and methodologies of the field, co-edited by @haneuljang.bsky.social and I. More info, check the submissions page of our website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr or get in touch!
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Hunter Gatherer Research Home
The journal encompasses social and cultural anthropology, applied research, archaeology, ecology, ethnography, ethnohistory, evolutionary anthropology, genetics, indigenous rights, and linguistics, and is an indispensable resource for anyone with a research or activist interest in hunter-gatherers.
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
OPEN LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY! Mentorship, advocacy, and community — these are the backbone of #WplusEBS. As chair-elect or secretary of W+EBS, you'd help shape what that looks like for members around the world from 2026 to 2030. Nominate yourself or someone you know to run for office!
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