We review the evolutionary origins of the human diet and the effects of ecology economy on
the dietary proportion of plants and animals. Humans eat more meat than other apes, a …

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 …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Cooperation and communication likely coevolved in humans. However, the evolutionary
roots of this interdependence remain unclear. We address this issue by investigating the role …

Uncertainty is a ubiquitous component of human economic behaviour, yet people can vary
in their preferences for risk across populations, individuals and different points in time. As …

Natural selection will favor male care when males have limited alternative mating
opportunities, can invest in their own offspring, and when care enhances males' fitness …

Infanticide is well documented in chimpanzees and various hypotheses have been
proposed to explain this behavior. However, since infanticide by chimpanzees is relatively …

Dental caries has been reported in a variety of primates, although it is still considered rare in
wild populations. In this study, 11 catarrhine primate taxa (n= 339 individuals; 7946 teeth) …

The significance of aquatic food resources for hominins is poorly understood, despite
evidence of consumption as early as 1.95 million years ago (Ma). Here we present the first …

The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective
of 'a year in the life': how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round …