M. Dyble, G. D. Salali, N. Chaudhary, A. Page, D. Smith, J. Thompson, L. Vinicius, R. Mace, and A. B. Migliano (2015) Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands. Science 15 May 2015: 348 (6236), 796-798. [DOI:10.1126/science.aaa5139].
Chaudhary, N., Salali G.D., Thompson J., Dyble M., Page A., Smith D., Mace R., and Migliano A. B. (2015) "Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies." Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 5 (2015): 150054.
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Why our ancestors were more gender equal than us
Research suggests that hunter gatherers were more egalitarian than us, partly because they had fewer relatives around.
May 18, 2015
Did sexual equality fuel the evolution of human cooperation?
Anthropologists Mark Dyble and Andrea Migliano of University College London wondered if human cooperation had less to do with genetics and more to do with sexual equality.
May 14, 2015
Is fish oil good for you? Depends on your DNA
These days, lots of foods come fortified with omega-3 fatty acids because of their supposed health benefits. But not everyone may reap them equally, according to a new study of native Greenlanders.
Sep 17, 2015
Early men and women were equal, say scientists
Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture.
May 14, 2015
There was a decline of male diversity when humans took to agriculture
The change of lifestyle from 10,000 years ago had a dramatic impact on the male divefrsity revealed in DNA.
April 20, 2015
Neolithic culture may have kept most men from mating
Scientific Method / Science & Exploration Neolithic culture may have kept most men from mating Y chromosome diversity suggests male reproductive bottleneck...
Mar 24, 2015
High-fat diet made Inuits healthier but shorter thanks to gene mutations, study finds
For evolutionary biologists, the best experiments are those already going on in nature. The different conditions in which humans have lived for tens of thousands of years have made us adapt and change.
Sep 17. 2015
Migliano, A. B. et al. Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture. Nat. Hum. Behav. 1, 0043 (2017).
Bentzen-Bilkvist, Dana, Andrea Migliano, and Lucio Vinicius. "Behavioural Phenotypes and the Structure of Human Cognition." Evolutionary Biology (2016): 1-7.
Pagani, Luca, et al. "Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia." Nature 538.7624 (2016): 238-242.
Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, et al. "A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia." Nature (2016).
Salali, Gul Deniz, et al. "Knowledge-Sharing Networks in Hunter-Gatherers and the Evolution of Cumulative Culture." Current Biology 26.18 (2016): 2516-2521.
Dyble, Mark, et al. "Networks of Food Sharing Reveal the Functional Significance of Multilevel Sociality in Two Hunter-Gatherer Groups." Current Biology 26.15 (2016): 2017-2021.
Smith D et al. 2016 Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter–gatherer cooperation. R. Soc. open sci. 3: 160131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160131
Page, Abigail E., et al. "Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.17 (2016): 4694-4699.
Vinicius, Lucio, and Andrea Bamberg Migliano. "Reproductive market values explain post-reproductive lifespans in men." Trends in ecology & evolution31.3 (2016): 172-175.
Chaudhary N, Salali GD, Thompson J, et al. Competition for Cooperation: variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers. Scientific Reports. 2016;6:29120. doi:10.1038/srep29120.
Salali,G. D. and Migliano, A. B. (2015) Future Discounting in Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers Declineswith Socio-Economic Transitions. PlosOne September 18, 2015: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137806
Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture
We developed a portable wireless sensing technology (motes) to study within-camp proximity networks among Agta and BaYaka hunter-gatherers
in fine detail.
Dec 29, 2016
Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia
Here we present a dataset of 483 high-coverage human genomes from 148 populations worldwide, including 379 new genomes from 125 populations, which we group into diversity and
selection sets.
Oct 13, 2016
Knowledge-Sharing Networks in Hunter-Gatherers and the Evolution of Cumulative Culture
Here we examine the reported co-occurrence of plant uses between individuals in dyads (which we define as their “shared knowledge” of plant uses) in BaYaka Pygmies from Congo.
Sep 8, 2016
A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia
The first comprehensive genomic study of Aboriginal Australians reveals that they are indeed the direct descendants of Australia's earliest settlers and diverged from their Papuan neighbours about 37'000 years ago (y.a.).
Oct 13, 2016
Networks of Food Sharing Reveal the Functional Significance of Multilevel Sociality in Two Hunter-Gatherer Groups
Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a much more essential commodity: food.
Jul 21, 2016
Competition for Cooperation: variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers
We attempt to identify the role of inter-individual variation in relational wealth in the dynamics of within-group competition among BaYaka hunter-gatherers.
Jul 12, 2016
Future Discounting in Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers Declines with Socio-Economic Transitions
Here, we study Mbendjele BaYaka hunter-gatherers of northern Congo and their farmer neighbours to investigate adaptations in inter-temporal preferences in humans.
Sep 18, 2015
