Not just in the past: Racist and sexist biases still permeate biology, anthropology, medicine, and education [0.03%]
不仅存在于过去：种族主义和性别偏见仍然充斥着生物学、人类学、医学和教育等领域
Rui Diogo,Adeyemi Adesomo,Kimberly S Farmer et al.
Rui Diogo et al.
In the past decades, it has been increasingly recognized that some areas of science, such as anthropology, have been plagued by racist, Western-centric, and/or sexist biases. Unfortunately, an acculturation process to racism and sexism has ...
The Australopithecus assemblage from Sterkfontein Member 4 (South Africa) and the concept of variation in palaeontology [0.03%]
来自南非Sterkfontein第4成员的南方古猿集合以及古生物学中的变异概念
Amélie Beaudet
Amélie Beaudet
Interpreting morphological variation within the early hominin fossil record is particularly challenging. Apart from the fact that there is no absolute threshold for defining species boundaries in palaeontology, the degree of variation relat...
Carrie C Veilleux,Nathaniel J Dominy,Amanda D Melin
Carrie C Veilleux
Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published "The sensory ecology of primate food perception," an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate foraging adaptations. Their review synthesized information on pri...
Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history [0.03%]
传染病和人口演变的生物文化观点：历史中的结核病及其共病情况
Taylor P van Doren
Taylor P van Doren
Anthropologists recognize the importance of conceptualizing health in the context of the mutually evolving nature of biology and culture through the biocultural approach, but biocultural anthropological perspectives of infectious diseases a...
Alastair Key,Nick Ashton
Alastair Key
Our understanding of when hominins first reached northern Europe is dependent on a fragmented archaeological and fossil record known from as early as marine isotope stage (MIS) 21 or 25 (c. 840 or 950 thousand years ago [Ka]). This contrast...
Cheng Liu,Dietrich Stout
Cheng Liu
The cultural reproduction of lithic technology, long an implicit assumption of archaeological theories, has garnered increasing attention over the past decades. Major debates ranging from the origins of the human culture capacity to the int...
Kevin G Hatala,Neil T Roach,Anna K Behrensmeyer
Kevin G Hatala
Hominin footprints have not traditionally played prominent roles in paleoanthropological studies, aside from the famous 3.66 Ma footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania in the late 1970s. This contrasts with the importance of trace fossil...
Reticulate evolution underlies synergistic trait formation in human communities [0.03%]
网状演化构成了人类群体中协同性状形成的基础
Nathalie Gontier,Anton Sukhoverkhov
Nathalie Gontier
This paper investigates how reticulate evolution contributes to a better understanding of human sociocultural evolution in general, and community formation in particular. Reticulate evolution is evolution as it occurs by means of symbiosis,...
Manvir Singh
Manvir Singh
Why is culture the way it is? Here I argue that a major force shaping culture is subjective (cultural) selection, or the selective retention of cultural variants that people subjectively perceive as satisfying their goals. I show that peopl...
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex [0.03%]
努比人的性质：当前全球努比勒瓦尔石器技术及努比亚复合体的视角与发展
Emily Hallinan,Omry Barzilai,Amir Beshkani et al.
Emily Hallinan et al.