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{"title":"Beyond the image: Interdisciplinary and contextual approaches to understanding symbolic cognition in Paleolithic parietal art","authors":"Isobel Wisher, Murillo Pagnotta, Eduardo Palacio-Pérez, Riccardo Fusaroli, Diego Garate, Derek Hodgson, John Matthews, Larissa Mendoza-Straffon, Blanca Ochoa, Felix Riede, Kristian Tylén","doi":"10.1002/evan.21996","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21996","url":null,"abstract":"Symbolic cognition—the ability to produce and use symbols, including (but not limited to) linguistic symbols—has often been considered a hallmark of human achievement. Given its importance, symbolic cognition has been a major topic of interest in many academic disciplines including anthropology, archeology, and the cognitive sciences. Paleolithic rock art holds vast potential for understanding the early roots of symbolically mediated behavior. Specifically, geographic and temporal differences in parietal motifs across sites may provide important evidence about the sociocognitive processes that occurred in the deep past of our lineage, how they varied across groups, and how they changed over time. However, the fragmentary nature of the rock art record often makes direct inferences about past symbolic behaviors difficult to assert. Additionally, because scholars working within different disciplines may differ in their interests, theories, methodologies, epistemologies, and terminology, interdisciplinary dialog can be challenging. If we accept the challenge, however, we believe that interdisciplinary dialogs can increase our understanding of this important topic. Through interdisciplinary approaches we can, for instance, integrate information from dating and materials used, with insights into the particular conditions and sociocultural contexts in which the art could have been made and experienced. The workshop Understanding the Development of Symbolic Cognition through Rock Art: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue was held on 15 and 16 May 2023 at the new rock art center in Puente Viesgo (Cantabria, Spain)—home to the Upper Paleolithic cave art sites of Monte Castillo. It was organized by the ERC project eSYMb: The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behaviour, and intended to bring together perspectives from diverse disciplines to discuss the different theoretical and empirical approaches that can be used to understand what rock art might indicate about the evolution of symbolic cognition in the Upper Paleolithic. Eleven participants attended the workshop (Figure 1) that had expertise from diverse disciplinary backgrounds (archeology, anthropology, art, semiotics, psychology, and cognitive science) and represented six different academic institutions from Denmark, Spain, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The Monte Castillo caves were a focal point of the workshop, with their rich and extensive record of Paleolithic art stimulating ideas and discussion among the participants. The different perspectives offered by the participants productively generated new discussions about interdisciplinary approaches to Paleolithic art and have encouraged future collaborations between the different disciplines.","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 5","pages":"256-259"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9888410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Addressing the growing fossil record of subadult hominins by reaching across disciplines","authors":"Debra R. Bolter, Noel Cameron, John Hawks, Steven E. Churchill, Lee Berger, Robin Bernstein, Julia C. Boughner, Sarah Elton, A. B. Leece, Patrick Mahoney, Keneiloe Molopyane, Tesla A. Monson, Jill Pruetz, Lawrence Schell, Kyra E. Stull, Christopher A. Wolfe","doi":"10.1002/evan.21995","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21995","url":null,"abstract":"Department of Anthropology, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, California, USA Faculty of Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Anthropology, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, California, USA School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK Anthropology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Explorer in Residence, National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia, USA Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of the Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Durham University, Durham, UK Palaeoscience, Department of Archaeology and History, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry Research Group, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA Department of Anthropology, Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas, USA Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA Department of Anthropology, University of Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 4","pages":"180-184"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10121132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A tooth crown morphology framework for interpreting the diversity of primate dentitions","authors":"Simon A. Chapple,&nbsp;Matthew M. Skinner","doi":"10.1002/evan.21994","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21994","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Variation in tooth crown morphology plays a crucial role in species diagnoses, phylogenetic inference, and the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the primate clade. While a growing number of studies have identified developmental mechanisms linked to tooth size and cusp patterning in mammalian crown morphology, it is unclear (1) to what degree these are applicable across primates and (2) which additional developmental mechanisms should be recognized as playing important roles in odontogenesis. From detailed observations of lower molar enamel–dentine junction morphology from taxa representing the major primate clades, we outline multiple phylogenetic and developmental components responsible for crown patterning, and formulate a tooth crown morphology framework for the holistic interpretation of primate crown morphology. We suggest that adopting this framework is crucial for the characterization of tooth morphology in studies of dental development, discrete trait analysis, and systematics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 5","pages":"240-255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.21994","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10262659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deconstructing Eurocentrism in skin pigmentation research via the incorporation of diverse populations and theoretical perspectives","authors":"Yemko Pryor,&nbsp;John Lindo","doi":"10.1002/evan.21993","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21993","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The evolution of skin pigmentation has been shaped by numerous biological and cultural shifts throughout human history. Vitamin D is considered a driver of depigmentation evolution in humans, given the deleterious health effects associated with vitamin D deficiency, which is often shaped by cultural factors. New advancements in genomics and epigenomics have opened the door to a deeper exploration of skin pigmentation evolution in both contemporary and ancient populations. Data from ancient Europeans has offered great context to the spread of depigmentation alleles via the evaluation of migration events and cultural shifts that occurred during the Neolithic. However, novel insights can further be gained via the inclusion of diverse ancient and contemporary populations. Here we present on how potential biases and limitations in skin pigmentation research can be overcome with the integration of interdisciplinary data that includes both cultural and biological elements, which have shaped the evolutionary history of skin pigmentation in humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 4","pages":"195-205"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9966592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hunter-gatherer diets and activity as a model for health promotion: Challenges, responses, and confirmations","authors":"Melvin Konner,&nbsp;S. Boyd Eaton","doi":"10.1002/evan.21987","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21987","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beginning in 1985, we and others presented estimates of hunter-gatherer (and ultimately ancestral) diet and physical activity, hoping to provide a model for health promotion. The Hunter-Gatherer Model was designed to offset the apparent mismatch between our genes and the current Western-type lifestyle, a mismatch that arguably affects prevalence of many chronic degenerative diseases. The effort has always been controversial and subject to both scientific and popular critiques. The present article (1) addresses eight such challenges, presenting for each how the model has been modified in response, or how the criticism can be rebutted; (2) reviews new epidemiological and experimental evidence (including especially randomized controlled clinical trials); and (3) shows how official recommendations put forth by governments and health authorities have converged toward the model. Such convergence suggests that evolutionary anthropology can make significant contributions to human health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 4","pages":"206-222"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10335492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"William L. Jungers, a gentle giant in Madagascar","authors":"Laurie R. Godfrey,&nbsp;David A. Burney","doi":"10.1002/evan.21992","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21992","url":null,"abstract":"William L. Jungers is perhaps best known for his work on human evolution and especially Australopithecus afarensis (“Lucy”) and Homo floresiensis (the “Hobbit”), but Madagascar was his first love, and the place to which he retired (Figure 1). His last professional affiliation was Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Bill's first edited book (Size and Scaling in Primate Biology) showcased his broad comparative perspective and the statistical savvy with which he approached research on all topics in paleobiology throughout his career. During the mid‐20th century, paleobiology was on a steady journey toward increased parameterization and quantitative rigor, embracing the primary goals of using pattern in the fossil record to deduce evolutionary process and allometric variation to deduce behavior, physiology, and indeed, also, evolutionary process. Bill's book was one of several that focused on allometry, evolution, and the biology of scaling. From the beginning, having completed in 1976 a doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan on the appendicular skeleton of Megaladapis, one of Madagascar's “giant” lemurs, Madagascar's extinct and extant lemurs were central to Bill's thinking about skeletal allometry. Understanding scaling was not merely a tool to reconstruct the body masses of extinct animals, but to understand how size affects musculoskeletal anatomy in species belonging to different locomotor groups (e.g., climbers, vertical clingers and leapers)—and more than that, how size affects behavior and physiology. But, in good measure, Bill's ability to “read” bones, and from those analyses, to visualize the past, sprang from his expertise beyond biometrics—that is, his knowledge of comparative primate anatomy and biomechanics. Extinct and extant lemurs, with their extraordinary diversity in form and function, accorded him superb subject matter. Thus, when in 2002 he coedited a book on Reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record with J. Michael Plavcan, Richard Kay, and Carel van Schaik, his own contribution (apart from coauthoring the introductory and concluding chapters) was on “Ecomorphology and behavior of giant extinct lemurs from Madagascar.” Throughout his career, his fascination with lemurs never waned. He contributed scores upon scores of publications on extinct and extant lemurs including comprehensive reviews, and the world benefited from his insights. One of Bill's landmark publications was a book coauthored with Steve Goodman (Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the island's past), with spectacular, anatomically accurate, and behaviorally realistic illustrations of Madagascar's late Holocene plant and animal communities. The prehistoric landscapes illustrated in this volume were creations that only skilled anatomists like Bill and Steve could envision, with the help of paleoecologists like one of us (David Burney) who, by looking through microscopes at assemblages of tiny pollen grains sampled from sedimentary dep","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 4","pages":"172-176"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9963501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The estimation and evolution of hominin body mass","authors":"Christopher B. Ruff,&nbsp;Bernard A. Wood","doi":"10.1002/evan.21988","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21988","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Body mass is a critical variable in many hominin evolutionary studies, with implications for reconstructing relative brain size, diet, locomotion, subsistence strategy, and social organization. We review methods that have been proposed for estimating body mass from true and trace fossils, consider their applicability in different contexts, and the appropriateness of different modern reference samples. Recently developed techniques based on a wider range of modern populations hold promise for providing more accurate estimates in earlier hominins, although uncertainties remain, particularly in non-<i>Homo</i> taxa. When these methods are applied to almost 300 Late Miocene through Late Pleistocene specimens, the resulting body mass estimates fall within a 25–60 kg range for early non-<i>Homo</i> taxa, increase in early <i>Homo</i> to about 50–90 kg, then remain constant until the Terminal Pleistocene, when they decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 4","pages":"223-237"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.21988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10318190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Male–male relationships in chimpanzees and the evolution of human pair bonds","authors":"Aaron A. Sandel","doi":"10.1002/evan.21986","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21986","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The evolution of monogamy has been a central question in biological anthropology. An important avenue of research has been comparisons across “socially monogamous” mammals, but such comparisons are inappropriate for understanding human behavior because humans are not “pair living” and are only sometimes “monogamous.” It is the “pair bond” between reproductive partners that is characteristic of humans and has been considered unique to our lineage. I argue that pair bonds have been overlooked in one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. These pair bonds are not between mates but between male “friends” who exhibit enduring and emotional social bonds. The presence of such bonds in male–male chimpanzees raises the possibility that pair bonds emerged earlier in our evolutionary history. I suggest pair bonds first arose as “friendships” and only later, in the human lineage, were present between mates. The mechanisms for these bonds were co-opted for male-female bonds in humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 4","pages":"185-194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9954183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Amazonian Monkeys and Kafka's Ape at the German Primate Center","authors":"Bernardo Urbani,&nbsp;Gabriel Robinson-González","doi":"10.1002/evan.21985","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21985","url":null,"abstract":"After a long pause due to the global pandemic, people began holding and attending in‐person gatherings again. Two public events at the Deutsches Primatenzentrum (German Primate Center, DPZ) in November 2022 stand out: the opening of a large exhibition on primatological research in the Amazon and the presentation of an unusual play linking primatology and visual arts (Figure 1a,d). This review will take the readers on a guided tour and reveal the hidden journey behind both events.","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 3","pages":"131-134"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9606123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental health and well-being in primatology: Breaking the taboos","authors":"Joanna M. Setchell,&nbsp;Steve Unwin,&nbsp;Susan M. Cheyne","doi":"10.1002/evan.21984","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.21984","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We hope to raise awareness of mental health and well-being among primatologists. With this aim in mind, we organized a workshop on mental health as part of the main program of the Winter meeting of the <i>Primate Society of Great Britain</i> in December 2021. The workshop was very well received. Here, we review the main issues raised in the workshop, and supplement them with our own observations, reflections, and reading. The information we gathered during the workshop reveals clear hazards to mental health and suggests that we must collectively acknowledge and better manage both the hazards themselves and our ability to cope with them if we are to avert disaster. We call on institutions and learned societies to lead in seeking solutions for the benefit of primatologists and primatology.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 3","pages":"144-153"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9607293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}