▪ Abstract The study of complex adaptive systems, a subset of nonlinear dynamical systems,
has recently become a major focus of interdisciplinary research in the social and natural …

Over recent millennia, human populations have regularly reconstructed their subsistence
niches, changing both how they obtain food and the conditions in which they live. For …

Storytelling is a human universal. From gathering around the camp-fire telling tales of
ancestors to watching the latest television box-set, humans are inveterate producers and …

Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a
common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in …

Abstract The Holocene (beginning around 12,000 years ago) encompassed some of the
most significant changes in human evolution, with far-reaching consequences for the …

Social networks in modern societies are highly structured, usually involving frequent contact
with a small number of unrelated 'friends'. However, contact network structures in traditional …

Maladaptation to modern diets has been implicated in several chronic disorders. Given the
higher prevalence of disease such as dental caries and chronic gum diseases in …

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 …

In psychological research, there are often assumptions about the conditions that children
expect to encounter during their development. These assumptions shape prevailing ideas …

The environmental drivers of species distributions and abundances are at the core of
ecological research. However, the effects of these drivers on human abundance are not well …