{"title":"Mad cows and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: The human face of the globalization of disease","authors":"G. Armelagos","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)7:3<77::AID-EVAN1>3.0.CO;2-D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)7:3<77::AID-EVAN1>3.0.CO;2-D","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321397,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues","volume":"56 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120907696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity","authors":"H. Kaplan, K. Hill, J. Lancaster, A. Hurtado","doi":"10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:4<156::AID-EVAN5>3.0.CO;2-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:4<156::AID-EVAN5>3.0.CO;2-7","url":null,"abstract":"Human life histories, as compared to those of other primates and mammals, have at least four distinctive characteristics: an exceptionally long lifespan, an extended period of juvenile dependence, support of reproduction by older post‐reproductive individuals, and male support of reproduction through the provisioning of females and their offspring. Another distinctive feature of our species is a large brain, with its associated psychological attributes: increased capacities for learning, cognition, and insight. In this paper, we propose a theory that unites and organizes these observations and generates many theoretical and empirical predictions. We present some tests of those predictions and outline new predictions that can be tested in future research by comparative biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, biological anthropologists, demographers, geneticists, and cultural anthropologists.","PeriodicalId":321397,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues","volume":"5 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121059491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good characters and homology","authors":"B. Wiesemüller, H. Rothe, W. Henke","doi":"10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:4<151::AID-EVAN2>3.0.CO;2-L","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:4<151::AID-EVAN2>3.0.CO;2-L","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a critical comment on a recent article by Lieberman. 1 We question his opinion that DNA is a better data source for phylogenetic reconstructions than bone and discuss his “problems and potential solutions” regarding the homology concept. We conclude that phylogenetic systematics requires a phylogenetic homology concept, and that Lieberman's “solutions,” though useful terms, should not be designated as homology.","PeriodicalId":321397,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123091283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of human growth","authors":"S. Leigh","doi":"10.1002/EVAN.20002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EVAN.20002","url":null,"abstract":"The human pattern of growth and development (ontogeny) appears to differ markedly from patterns of ontogeny in other primate species. Humans present complex and sinuous growth curves for both body mass and stature. Many human proportions change dramatically during ontogeny, as we reach sizes that are among the largest of living primates. Perhaps most obviously, humans grow for a long time, with the interval between birth and maturation exceeding that of all other primate species. These ontogenetic traits are as distinctive as other key derived human traits, such as a large brain and language. Ontogenetic adaptations are also linked to human social organization, particularly by necessitating high levels of parental investment during the first several years of life.","PeriodicalId":321397,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124877994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Steckel, J. Rose, Clark Spencer Larsen, P. Walker
{"title":"Skeletal health in the Western Hemisphere from 4000 B.C. to the present","authors":"R. Steckel, J. Rose, Clark Spencer Larsen, P. Walker","doi":"10.1002/EVAN.10030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EVAN.10030","url":null,"abstract":"1Beginning in the late 1980s, researchers in various fields, especially history, economics, and physical anthropology, discovered a mutual interest in health and its spatial and temporal patterning in human history. Economic historians have been keenly interested in health in recent years, basing their assessments on heights, primarily those of adult men as learned from military muster rolls. Physical anthropologists have studied numerous skeletal remains that can be used to reconstruct living heights from long-bone lengths. They have also documented patterns of health based on various paleopathological indicators. A key development in the study of health in the distant past occurred with the publication of Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture, edited by Mark Cohen and George Armelagos.2 Cohen3 had argued in The Food Crisis in Prehistory that the population increases prior to the Neolithic set the stage for nutritional deficiencies that stimulated the development of agriculture. If this were the case, the evidence for nutritional deficiencies would have occurred before the Neolithic, and this crisis would have been the motivation to shift to primary food production. Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture compiled paleopathological studies by various researchers from around the world, addressing long-term trends in health, especially the impact of the shift from foraging to farming. These studies showed a generally consistent pattern of increasing morbidity wherever and whenever the transition took place. The book was limited, however, in that contributors used different data coding schemes, which calls into question the comparability of results. Despite this caveat, the contributors’ effort confirmed the result of a handful of previously reported regional studies of populations from North America, northeastern Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean, that the agricultural transition beginning in the early Holocene was accompanied by a cost to human health and quality of life.","PeriodicalId":321397,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues","volume":"412 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116520372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neanderthals and modern humans in eastern europe","authors":"J. Hoffecker","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)7:4<129::AID-EVAN3>3.0.CO;2-G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)7:4<129::AID-EVAN3>3.0.CO;2-G","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321397,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120588943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}