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 …

A quarter century has passed since the first publication of the evolutionary discordance
hypothesis, according to which departures from the nutrition and activity patterns of our …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

Aboriginal burning in Australia has long been assumed to be a “resource management”
strategy, but no quantitative tests of this hypothesis have ever been conducted. We combine …

Recent huntergatherers display much uniformity in the division of labor along the lines of
gender and age. The complementary economic roles for men and women typical of …

The role of men in hunter-gatherer societies has been subject to vigorous debate over the
past 15 years. The proposal that men hunt wild game as a form of status signaling or …

Teaching is cross-culturally widespread but few studies have considered children as
teachers as well as learners. This is surprising, since forager children spend much of their …

Age of weaning is an important measure of parental investment, and in various human and
non-human primate studies, has been correlated with a range of developmental factors such …

Human hunting is arguably one of the most difficult activities common to foraging peoples
now and in the past. Children and teenagers have usually been described as incompetent …

We examine from whom children learn in mobile hunter-gatherers, a way of life that
characterized much of human history. Recent studies on the modes of transmission in hunter …