Educational mobility captures the association between parents' and adult children's
schooling attainment. Along with measures of occupational and economic mobility, it …

We survey archaeological evidence suggesting that among hunter-gatherers and farmers in
Neolithic western Eurasia (11,700 to 5,300 years ago) elevated levels of wealth inequality …

Humans are able to thrive in a multitude of ecological and social environments, including
varied environments over an individual lifetime. Migration—leaving one place of residence …

Humans transmit cultural information to others in a variety of ways that can affect
productivity, cultural success, and ultimately fitness. Not all potential transmitters are …

At the headwaters of the Yenisei River in Tuva and northern Mongolia, nomadic pastoralists
move between camps in a seasonal rotation that facilitates their animals' access to high …

Female-biased kinship (FBK) arises in numerous species and in diverse human cultures,
suggesting deep evolutionary roots to female-oriented social structures. The significance of …

We investigate whether age profiles of ethnobiological knowledge development are
consistent with predictions derived from life history theory about the timing of productivity …

Humans with modern anatomies and sophisticated cultural capacities have existed for at
least 200,000 years and began worldwide expansion about 60,000 years ago (Bergström et …

Abstract 1 Individuals vary in their access to resources, social connections, and phenotypic
traits, and a central 2 goal of behavioral ecology is to understand how this variation …

Population genetics has been successful at identifying the relationships between human
groups and their interconnected histories. However, the link between genetic demography …