Hunting and gathering is, evolutionarily, the defining subsistence strategy of our species.
Studying how children learn foraging skills can, therefore, provide us with key data to test …

Abstract The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio‐behavioral study of
the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life‐history …

Observation of leadership in small-scale societies offers unique insights into the evolution of
human collective action and the origins of sociopolitical complexity. Using behavioural data …

We propose that networks of cooperation and allocation of social status co-emerge in
human groups. We substantiate this hypothesis with one of the first longitudinal studies of …

Leadership studies concentrate on large-scale societies and organizations with formal
hierarchies, large power differences, and diverse membership. Much less is known about …

The term 'life-history theory'is a familiar label in several disciplines. Life-history theory has its
roots in evolutionary models of the fitness consequences of allocating energy to …

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that there are two major dimensions of social perception,
often called warmth and competence, and that warmth is prioritized over competence in …

From the popularity of authoritarian political leaders to the under-representation of women in
boardrooms, leadership is an important theme in current human social affairs. Leadership is …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …