Successful reconstruction of any aspect of human evolution ideally requires broad‐based
comparisons with other primates, as recognition of general principles provides a more …

Evolutionary anthropological and ethnographic studies are used to develop a general
conceptual framework for understanding prehistoric, historic, and contemporary variation in …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …

Macroevolutionary biologists have classically rejected the notion that higher-level patterns of
divergence arise through microevolutionary processes acting within populations. For …

This is the first textbook of Virtual Anthropology, the new science that combines elements
from fields as diverse as anthropology, medicine, statistics, computing, scientific …

Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor
nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods …

We present a compilation of endocranial volumes (ECV) for 176 non-human primate species
based on individual data collected from 3813 museum specimens, at least 88% being wild …

We know a great deal about roles the environment plays in shaping survival, reproductive
success, and even social systems among primates. But how do primate life histories affect …

The correlation between brain size and life history has been investigated in many previous
studies, and several viable explanations have been proposed. However, the results of these …