All Outputs (9)

Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter--Gatherer Societies (2022)
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Studies of cultural transmission—whether approached by archaeological or ethnographic means—have made great strides in identifying formal teaching and learning arrangements, which in turn can be closely aligned with models of social learning. While n... Read More about Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter--Gatherer Societies.

The social learning and development of intra-and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol (2022)
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Compared to other species, the extent of human cooperation is unparalleled. Such cooperation is coordinated between community members via social norms. Developmental research has demonstrated that very young children are sensitive to social norms, an... Read More about The social learning and development of intra-and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol.

Foraging complexity and the evolution of childhood (2022)
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Our species’ long childhood is hypothesized to have evolved as a period for learning complex foraging skills. Researchers studying the development of foraging proficiency have focused on assessing this hypothesis, yet studies present inconsistent con... Read More about Foraging complexity and the evolution of childhood.

Links between household and family social dynamics with sleep profiles among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin (2022)
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Given the contributions of sleep to a range of health outcomes, there is substantial interest in ecological and environmental factors, including psychosocial contexts, that shape variation in sleep between individuals and populations. However, the li... Read More about Links between household and family social dynamics with sleep profiles among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin.

Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies (2022)
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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 niche requiring high levels of cooperation. Considering the diver... Read More about Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies.

Hunter-Gatherer Children's Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis (2022)
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Learning to use, make, and modify tools is key to our species’ success. Researchers have hypothesized that play with objects may have a foundational role in the ontogeny of tool use and, over evolutionary timescales, in cumulative technological innov... Read More about Hunter-Gatherer Children's Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis.

Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents (2022)
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Teaching likely evolved in humans to facilitate the faithful transmission of complex tasks. As the oldest evidenced hunting technology, spear hunting requires acquiring several complex physical and cognitive competencies. In this study, we used obser... Read More about Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents.

A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science (2022)
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Social ties in the Congo Basin: insights into tropical forest adaptation from BaYaka and their neighbours (2022)
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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, we first review and synthesize genetic, palaeoclimatological, linguistic and... Read More about Social ties in the Congo Basin: insights into tropical forest adaptation from BaYaka and their neighbours.