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Optional-switch cognitive flexibility in primates: Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) intermediate susceptibility to cognitive set. (2020)
Journal Article
Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Watzek, J., Lew-Levy, S., Autrey, M. M., & Hopkins, W. D. (2020). Optional-switch cognitive flexibility in primates: Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) intermediate susceptibility to cognitive set. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134(1), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000194

Within human problem-solving, the propensity to use a familiar approach, rather than switch to a more efficient alternative is pervasive. This susceptibility to “cognitive set” prevents optimization by biasing response patterns toward known solutions... Read More about Optional-switch cognitive flexibility in primates: Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) intermediate susceptibility to cognitive set..

Mobility, autonomy and learning: Could the transition from egalitarian to non-egalitarian social structures start with children? (2020)
Book Chapter
Reckin, R., Lew-Levy, S., Lavi, N., & Ellis-Davies, K. (2020). Mobility, autonomy and learning: Could the transition from egalitarian to non-egalitarian social structures start with children?. In Social inequality before farming? Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of social organisation in prehistoric and ethnographic hunter-gatherer-fisher societies (33--50). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Socialization, Autonomy, and Cooperation: Insights from Task Assignment Among the Egalitarian BaYaka (2020)
Journal Article
Boyette, A. H., & Lew-Levy, S. (2020). Socialization, Autonomy, and Cooperation: Insights from Task Assignment Among the Egalitarian BaYaka. Ethos, 48(3), 400-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12284

Across diverse societies, task assignment is a socialization practice that gradually builds children's instrumental skills and integrates them into the flow of daily activities in their community. However, psychosocial tensions can arise when coopera... Read More about Socialization, Autonomy, and Cooperation: Insights from Task Assignment Among the Egalitarian BaYaka.

Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin (2020)
Journal Article
Gettler, L. T., Lew-Levy, S., Sarma, M. S., Miegakanda, V., & Boyette, A. H. (2020). Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 15422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70958-3

Humans are rare among mammals in exhibiting paternal care and the capacity for broad hyper-cooperation, which were likely critical to the evolutionary emergence of human life history. In humans and other species, testosterone is often a mediator of l... Read More about Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin.

Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts (2020)
Journal Article
Lew-Levy, S., Milks, A., Lavi, N., Pope, S. M., & Friesem, D. E. (2020). Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, Article e31. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.35

Research in developmental psychology suggests that children are poor tool innovators. However, such research often overlooks the ways in which children's social and physical environments may lead to cross-cultural variation in their opportunities and... Read More about Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts.

Sex differences in daily activity intensity and energy expenditure and their relationship to cortisol among BaYaka foragers from the Congo Basin (2020)
Journal Article
Sarma, M. S., Boyette, A. H., Lew-Levy, S., Miegakanda, V., Kilius, E., Samson, D. R., & Gettler, L. T. (2020). Sex differences in daily activity intensity and energy expenditure and their relationship to cortisol among BaYaka foragers from the Congo Basin. American journal of physical anthropology, 172(3), 423-437. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24075

Objectives
The pooling of energetic resources and food sharing have been widely documented among hunter-gatherer societies. Much less is known about how the energetic costs of daily activities are distributed across individuals in such groups, inclu... Read More about Sex differences in daily activity intensity and energy expenditure and their relationship to cortisol among BaYaka foragers from the Congo Basin.

BaYaka education: From the forest to the ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir) classroom (2020)
Journal Article
Bombjaková, D., Lew-Levy, S., Duda, R., Loubelo, G., & Lewis, J. (2020). BaYaka education: From the forest to the ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir) classroom. Hunter Gatherer Research, 6(1-2), 87-114. https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2023.3

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 anthropologists and educational researchers as to whether schooling... Read More about BaYaka education: From the forest to the ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir) classroom.