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Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons (2022)
Journal Article
Schneider-Crease, I. A., Weyher, A. H., Mubemba, B., Kamilar, J. M., Petersdorf, M., & Chiou, K. L. (2022). Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons. Animal Behaviour, 189, 47-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.011

Social relationships are critical components of health and fitness for humans and other animals. For female-philopatric species, affiliative relationships among females (kin and nonkin alike) can influence components of fitness that include individua... Read More about Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons.

Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial (2022)
Journal Article
Dudley, R., Dodgson, G., Common, S., O'Grady, L., Watson, F., Gibbs, C., …Aynsworth, C. (2022). Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 12(5), Article e061827. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061827

Introduction Hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that others do not) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Existing treatments such as cognitive–behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) have modest benef... Read More about Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Intolerant baboons avoid observer proximity, creating biased inter-individual association patterns (2022)
Journal Article
Allan, A., White, A., & Hill, R. (2022). Intolerant baboons avoid observer proximity, creating biased inter-individual association patterns. Scientific Reports, 12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12312-3

Social network analysis is an increasingly popular tool for behavioural ecologists exploring the social organisation of animal populations. Such analyses require data on inter-individual association patterns, which in wild populations are often colle... Read More about Intolerant baboons avoid observer proximity, creating biased inter-individual association patterns.

‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity (2022)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2022). ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity. In B. Gidley, & S. S. Everett (Eds.), Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience (231-249). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514331_012

Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens.... Read More about ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity.

Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful (2022)
Journal Article
Hopkinson, L. (2022). Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(3), 725-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13762

Professional boxing offers hope of vast wealth and global mobility for aspiring athletes in Accra, hopes bolstered by the understanding that Ghanaians are particularly suited to boxing's attrition. However, when boxers become active in the global ind... Read More about Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful.

Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study (2022)
Journal Article
Mason, S., Hill, R., Whittingham, M., Cokill, J., Smith, G., & Stephens, P. (2022). Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 8(5), 717-730. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.272

Accurate and precise density estimates are crucial for effective species management and conservation. However, efficient monitoring of mammal densities over large spatial and temporal scales is challenging. In the United Kingdom, published density es... Read More about Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study.

Using genomic prediction to detect microevolutionary change of a quantitative trait (2022)
Journal Article
Hunter, D., Ashraf, B., Bérénos, C., Ellis, P., Johnston, S., Wilson, A., …Slate, J. (2022). Using genomic prediction to detect microevolutionary change of a quantitative trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1974), Article 20220330. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0330

Detecting microevolutionary responses to natural selection by observing temporal changes in individual breeding values is challenging. The collection of suitable datasets can take many years and disentangling the contributions of the environment and... Read More about Using genomic prediction to detect microevolutionary change of a quantitative trait.

Ten Years of Research on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: An Analysis of Topics Evolution (2022)
Journal Article
Lazaro, L. L. B., Bellezoni, R. A., Puppim de Oliveira, J. A., Jacobi, P. R., & Giatti, L. L. (2022). Ten Years of Research on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: An Analysis of Topics Evolution. Frontiers in Water, 4, Article 859891. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.859891

This study explores how the concept and research on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus has evolved over time. The research uncovers the key terms underpinning the phenomenon, maps the interlinkages between WEF nexus topics, and provides an overview of... Read More about Ten Years of Research on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: An Analysis of Topics Evolution.

Introduction: On irreconciliation (2022)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2022). Introduction: On irreconciliation. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(S1), 11-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13751

Most post-conflict reconciliatory exercises make it incumbent upon survivors to forgive, and seek closure as a demonstration of ‘moving on’. Various anthropologists have criticized reconciliation and related forms of ‘alternative justice’ extensively... Read More about Introduction: On irreconciliation.

Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive (2022)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., Smith, K., & Apicella, C. L. (2022). Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(3), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.03.001

Over the last half century, anthropologists have vigorously debated the adaptive motivations underlying food acquisition choices and food-sharing among hunter-gatherer groups. Numerous explanations have been proposed to account for high-levels of gen... Read More about Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive.

The role of population size in folk tune complexity (2022)
Journal Article
Street, S., Eerola, T., & Kendal, J. (2022). The role of population size in folk tune complexity. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, Article 152. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01139-y

Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity.

‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Islam, S. N. E., Mookherjee, N., & Khan, N. (2022). ‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 9(2), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.9.2.5424

This article is an anthropological examination of the health-seeking behaviours of Rohingya refugees living in crowded camps in Bangladesh, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. One international organisation providing medical care in the Kutupalo... Read More about ‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.

Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India (2022)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Chandra, P., Robson, M., Narayanan, P., Joseph, S., Mukherjee, P., …John, S. (2022). Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 24(11), 1714-1719. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac075

Introduction: The exploitation, poor conditions and precarity in the bidi (hand-rolled leaf cigarette) industry in India makes it ripe for the application of the FCTC’s Article 17, ‘Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities’... Read More about Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India.

Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures (2022)
Journal Article
Tichenor, M., Merry, S. E., Grek, S., & Bandola-Gill, J. (2022). Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures. Policy and Society, 41(4), 431-444. https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac015

Despite the multiplicity of actors, crises, and fields of action, global public policy has known one constant, that is, the ubiquity of indicators in the production of governing knowledge. This article theoretically engages with the phenomenon of hyp... Read More about Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures.

Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task (2022)
Journal Article
Reindl, E., Völter, C. J., Campbell-May, J., Call, J., & Seed, A. M. (2022). Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221(105428), Article 105428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105428

Attentional set shifting is a core part of cognition, allowing quick and flexible adaption to new demands. The study of its development during early childhood has been hampered by a shortage of measures not requiring language. This article argues for... Read More about Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task.

Squatting, Pelvic Morphology, and a Reconsideration of Childbirth Difficulties (2022)
Journal Article
Gorman, J., Roberts, C. A., Newsham, S., & Bentley, G. R. (2022). Squatting, Pelvic Morphology, and a Reconsideration of Childbirth Difficulties. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 10(1), 243-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoac017

Childbirth is commonly viewed as difficult in human females, encompassed by the “Obstetrical Dilemma” (OD) described by early palaeoanthropologists as an evolved trade-off between a narrow pelvis necessitated by bipedalism and a large-brained fetal h... Read More about Squatting, Pelvic Morphology, and a Reconsideration of Childbirth Difficulties.

The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees (2022)
Journal Article
Völter, C. J., Reindl, E., Felsche, E., Civelek, Z., Whalen, A., Lugosi, Z., …Seed, A. M. (2022). The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees. Scientific Reports, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08406-7

Executive functions (EF) are a core aspect of cognition. Research with adult humans has produced evidence for unity and diversity in the structure of EF. Studies with preschoolers favour a 1-factor model, in which variation in EF tasks is best explai... Read More about The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees.

The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate (2022)
Journal Article
Alexander, C. (2022). The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64(4), 934-965. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417522000159

This article tracks how a trope of middle-class household thrift, grounded on the autarchic Aristotelian oikos, has long fuelled derogatory discourses in Britain aimed at low-income urban residents who practise quite different forms of thrift. Since... Read More about The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate.