Investigating past and present human adaptation to the Congo Basin tropical forest can
shed light on how climate and ecosystem variability have shaped human evolution. Here …

A key issue distinguishing prominent evolutionary models of human life history is whether
prolonged childhood evolved to facilitate learning in a skill-and strength-intensive foraging …

Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education,
due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high …

The deep time record indicates that hunting played a key role in human evolution, including
in the development of the life history of humans. The archaeological record preserves many …

This paper examines how BaYaka children from the Congo Basin learn to “walk in the
forest”(botamboli na ndima). Specifically, after placing forest walking within historical and …

This article provides an overview of some of the main themes that have emerged in the
research on hunter gatherers and education. The term 'education'refers both to schooling …

A prevailing view of education is that schools are designed to teach academic content
knowledge. Schools are thus predominantly studied in the context of content mastery and …

We recently conducted a review of the literature regarding hunter-gatherer children's
schooling experiences in the global South (Ninkova et al 2024). In this research note, we …

Schooling is part of a global effort to help Indigenous peoples adapt to their changing social
and ecological worlds and assert their human rights. There is ongoing discussion among …

A key issue distinguishing prominent evolutionary models of human life history is whether
prolonged childhood evolved to facilitate learning in a skill‑and strength‑intensive foraging …