To successfully negotiate the developmental transition between youth and adulthood,
adolescents must maneuver this often stressful period while acquiring skills necessary for …

This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary–developmental
theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress …

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 …

Human life histories, as compared to those of other primates and mammals, have at least
four distinctive characteristics: an exceptionally long lifespan, an extended period of juvenile …

The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of
hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part …

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in
modern society. He critically examines' the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering …

We review evolutionary processes and mechanisms that gave rise to the diversity of primate
social systems. We define social organization, social structure and mating system as distinct …

Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition,
ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Humans diverge from most mammals, including nonhuman primates, by depositing
significant quantities of body fat in utero and are consequently one of the fattest species on …