The debate on the future of meat centres on recent environmental, economical, ethical, and
health issues, whereas historical dimensions are all too often overlooked. The fiery …

The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many of these same people experience
discomfort when the meat on their plate is linked to the death of animals. We draw on this …

Most people both eat animals and care about animals. Research has begun to examine the
psychological processes that allow people to negotiate this “meat paradox.” To understand …

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last
remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East …

The origins of sex differences in human behavior can lie mainly in evolved dispositions that
differ by sex or mainly in the differing placement of women and men in the social structure …

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 …

This contemporary introduction to the principles and research base of cultural ecology is the
ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that deal with …

Archeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior Page 1 ARTICLES Archeology and the
Evolution of Human Behavior RICHARD G. KLEIN Human paleontology and Paleolithic …

Behavioral ecology is the study of adaptive behavior in relation to social and environmental
circumstances. Analysts working from this perspective hold that the reproductive strategies …