Conrad Kottak, a cultural anthropologist, comments on contemporary issues. Click to read The Anthropocene Anthropologist: Reflections on Bizarroland, by Conrad Kottak, a Substack publication with hund...

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When did war and peace first emerge in the human lineage? Are they deep-rooted in our evolutionary past or recent cultural inventions? This article integrates insights from evolutionary anthropolog...

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While intergroup conflict features prominently in the behavioural ecology literature, its antonym, intergroup peace, has been a rather neglected phenomenon until recently. Neighbourly relations and a...

In mammals, documented female dominance is rare, but females can hold high status even with male-biased dimorphism. In wild living bonobo groups, female coalition formation best explains the observed ...

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<jats:p>Archaeology and the branch of population genetics focusing on the human past have historically lived parallel lives, often having complicated encounters when it came to unravelling the origins...

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Article: Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics | Sociological Science | Posted December 16, 2023

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A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to support. A much-cited statistic about how muc...

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A Review describes the unique and varied morphologies in fossil and modern apes, including humans.

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The hyper-carnivory movement conjures a time when men hunted and lunch was literally on the hoof. What does the research say?

One of the big problems of the social and human sciences is the number of different kinds of explanations there are for what people do. We invoke a great range of things when we talk about why peop…

Despite the variability of music across cultures, some types of human songs share acoustic characteristics. For example, dance songs tend to be loud and rhythmic, and lullabies tend to be quiet and me...