Women and girls cooperate with each other across many domains and at many scales.
However, much of this information is buried in the ethnographic record and has been …

Human prosociality is marked by the versatility with which we help across various contexts.
New research highlights that this capacity emerges early in human ontogeny. In this article, I …

Infant microbiome assembly has been intensely studied in infants from industrialized
nations, but little is known about this process in nonindustrialized populations. We deeply …

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are
families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this …

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 …

Evidence of Oldowan tools by∼ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may signal a major adaptive shift
in hominin evolution. While tool-dependent butchery of large mammals was important by at …

Understanding how gendered economic roles structure space use is critical to evolutionary
models of foraging behaviour, social organization and cognition. Here, we examine hunter …

Hunting is a characteristic feature of early human subsistence, and many theories of
evolution have emphasized the role of hunting in hominization. Still today hunting ability …

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

Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises
many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to …