Physiological and Genomic Signatures of War and Displacement: A Comprehensive Literature Review and Future Directions

J Jankovic-Rankovic, C Panter-Brick - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2024 - Elsevier
There are now 108.4 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, many of whom endure
adversities that result in trauma, toxic stress, and potentially, altered epigenetic …

Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta

AE Page, EH Emmott, M Dyble… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Non-maternal carers (allomothers) are hypothesized to lighten the mother's workload,
allowing for the specialized human life history including relatively short interbirth intervals …

BaYaka forager food sharing networks in the Congo Basin: The roles of gender homophily and kin sharing

LT Gettler, D Redhead, A Dzabatou… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Food sharing is a costly form of cooperation that was likely critical to human
evolutionary success, including the emergence of human's life history strategy. Food sharing …

Who cares for women with children? Crossing the bridge between disciplines

EH Emmott, S Myers, AE Page - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has long been acknowledged that women with children require social support to promote
their health and wellbeing, as well as that of their children. However, the dominant …

Refugee health and physiological profiles in transitional settlements in Serbia and Kenya: Comparative evidence for effects of gender and social support

LT Gettler, J Jankovic-Rankovic, RG Gengo… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
When armed conflict compels people to flee from their homelands, they embark on
protracted journeys during which they experience wide ranging physical, social, and …

Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin

AH Boyette, S Lew-Levy, M Valchy, LT Gettler - Evolution and Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is generally recognized that paternal care is a facultative feature of human cooperative
caregiving that helps underpin our evolved life history strategy. Yet, little direct evidence …

Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size

MK Shenk, A Morse, SM Mattison… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Malnutrition among women of reproductive age is a significant public health concern in low-
and middle-income countries. Of particular concern are undernutrition from underweight and …

Minimally invasive biomarkers in human and non‐human primate evolutionary biology: Tools for understanding variation and adaptation

SS Urlacher, EY Kim, T Luan… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background The use of minimally invasive biomarkers (MIBs–physiological biomarkers
obtained from minimally invasive sample types) has expanded rapidly in science and …

Relationship between proximity and physiological stress levels in hunter-gatherers: The Hadza

P Fedurek, L Lacroix, A Aktipis, L Cronk… - Hormones and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been a great deal of documentation on how social relationships
are related to various aspects of human wellbeing. However, until recently most studies …

Fathers' care in context:'facultative,'flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines

S Rosenbaum, CW Kuzawa, TW McDade… - Evolution and Human …, 2021 - Elsevier
Current evolutionary theory conceptualizes fathers' childcare as highly facultative and likely
contingent on a variety of local socioecological predictors. Much of the evolutionarily …