How much would we sleep if we lived without the pressures and distractions associated with industrialized lifestyles? New research shows that hunter-gatherer societies sleep for 6-7 hours a night--a level similar to industrialized societies.
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Hum Nat
September 2024
Sciences Po, Paris, Center for International Studies (CERI), 28 Rue des Saints-Pères, Paris, 75007, France.
Proc Biol Sci
December 2024
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
Studies of hunter-gatherer locomotion inform a wide range of academic fields, from human behavioural ecology and hominin evolution to sports science and evolutionary health. Despite celebrated ethnographic examples of hunter-gatherer locomotor proficiency in running, climbing, swimming and diving, there has been limited systematic analysis of cross-cultural variation in hunter-gatherer locomotor versatility. We conducted a systematic cross-cultural analysis of hunter-gatherer locomotion, coding locomotor behaviour from over 900 ethnographic documents.
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November 2024
Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
The Caucasus and surrounding areas, with their rich metal resources, became a crucible of the Bronze Age and the birthplace of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies. Yet, despite this region having a large influence on the subsequent development of Europe and Asia, questions remain regarding its hunter-gatherer past and its formation of expansionist mobile steppe societies. Here we present new genome-wide data for 131 individuals from 38 archaeological sites spanning 6,000 years.
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November 2024
Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.
Evol Med Public Health
October 2024
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are estimated to affect as many as 17.7% of mothers in agricultural and postindustrial societies. Various lines of research converge to suggest that PMADs may be 'diseases of modernity', arising from a mismatch between the environments in which humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years and contemporary postindustrial lifestyles.
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