Many researchers assume that until 10–12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile,
relatively egalitarian bands. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” suffuses the social sciences. It …

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HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL …

This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

The Government of Japan's “Society 5.0” initiative aims to create a cyber-physical society in
which (among other things) citizens' daily lives will be enhanced through increasingly close …

Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a
population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and …

The prevailing view regarding the evolution of medicine is that the emergence of settled
agricultural societies around 10,000 years ago (the Neolithic Revolution) gave rise to a host …

Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and
interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and
debate,–. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa …

Evidence of grand burials and monumental construction is a striking feature in the
archaeological record of the Upper Palaeolithic period, between 40 and 10 kya (thousand …