Alloparental care is central to human life history, which integrates exceptionally short
interbirth intervals and large birth size with an extended period of juvenile dependency and …

Sociality is widespread among animals, and involves complex relationships within and
between social groups. While intragroup interactions are often cooperative, intergroup …

Cooperation and cheating are widespread evolutionary strategies. While cheating confers
an advantage to individual entities within a group, competition between groups favors …

In several parts of the world, forests have been safeguarded by Indigenous and traditional
people, whose plant food production is mostly for self-consumption and for sale based on …

Ramification is the term used to classify branched productive sequences in which a
functional item (the flake) was exploited as a productive item (the core). This technological …

It has been argued that hunter-gatherers' food-sharing may have provided the basis for a
whole range of social interactions, and hence its study may provide important insight into the …

This article presents a cross-cultural study of the relationship among the subsistence
strategies, the environmental setting and the food sharing practices of 22 modern small …

The domestication of plants and the origin of agricultural societies has been the focus of
much theoretical discussion on why, how, when, and where these happened. The 'when'and …

Non-timber forest products, such as wild mushrooms, are important in rural livelihoods
worldwide. As resource pressures and environmental goals change, land tenure and …

In various ecosystems and human societies, living organisms and systems often exhibit
cooperative and synchronous behaviors during survival. Recently, co-evolutionary models …