Christopher J. Bae, Leslie C. Aiello, John Hawks, Yousuke Kaifu, Joshua Lindal, María Martinón-Torres, Xijun Ni, Cosimo Posth, Predrag Radović, Denne Reed, Lauren Schroeder, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Mary T. Silcox, Frido Welker, Xiu-Jie Wu, Clément Zanolli, Mirjana Roksandic
{"title":"Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle","authors":"Christopher J. Bae, Leslie C. Aiello, John Hawks, Yousuke Kaifu, Joshua Lindal, María Martinón-Torres, Xijun Ni, Cosimo Posth, Predrag Radović, Denne Reed, Lauren Schroeder, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Mary T. Silcox, Frido Welker, Xiu-Jie Wu, Clément Zanolli, Mirjana Roksandic","doi":"10.1002/evan.22011","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.22011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71522967","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":"Evolutionary medicine approaches to chronic disease: The case of irritable bowel syndrome","authors":"Makenna B. Lenover, Mary K. Shenk","doi":"10.1002/evan.22010","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.22010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a gastrointestinal disease, is a global phenomenon correlated with industrialization. We propose that an evolutionary medicine approach is useful to understand this disease from an ultimate perspective and conducted a scoping literature review to synthesize the IBS literature within this framework. Our review suggests five potential evolutionary hypotheses for the cause of IBS, including (a) a dietary mismatch accompanying a nutritional transition, (b) an early hygienic life environment leading to the immune system and microbiotic changes, (c) an outcome of decreased physical activity, (d) a response to changes in environmental light–dark cycles, and (e) an artifact of an evolved fight or flight response. We find key limitations in the available data needed to understand early life, nutritional, and socioeconomic experiences that would allow us to understand evolutionarily relevant risk factors and identify a need for further empirical research to distinguish potential causes and test evolutionary hypotheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.22010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71427874","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}
Tegan I. F. Foister, Indrė Žliobaitė, Oscar E. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, Miikka Tallavaara
{"title":"Homo heterogenus: Variability in early Pleistocene Homo environments","authors":"Tegan I. F. Foister, Indrė Žliobaitė, Oscar E. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, Miikka Tallavaara","doi":"10.1002/evan.22005","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.22005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To understand the ecological dominance of <i>Homo sapiens</i>, we need to investigate the origins of the plasticity that has enabled our colonization of the planet. We can approach this by exploring the variability of habitats to which different hominin populations have adapted over time. In this article, we draw upon and synthesize the current research on habitats of genus <i>Homo</i> during the early Pleistocene. We examined 121 published environmental reconstructions from 74 early Pleistocene sites or site phases to assess the balance of arguments in the research community. We found that, while grasslands and savannahs were prominent features of <i>Homo</i> habitats in the early Pleistocene, current research does not place early Pleistocene <i>Homo</i>, in any single environmental type, but in a wide variety of environments, ranging from open grasslands to forests. Our analysis also suggests that the first known dispersal of <i>Homo</i> out of Africa was accompanied by niche expansion.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 6","pages":"373-385"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.22005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50159061","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":"The use of chimpanzee-modified faunal assemblages to investigate early hominin carnivory","authors":"Alex Bertacchi, David P. Watts","doi":"10.1002/evan.22006","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.22006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chimpanzees regularly hunt and consume prey smaller than themselves. It seems therefore likely that early hominins also consumed small vertebrate meat before they started using and producing stone tools. Research has focused on cut marks and large ungulates, but there is a small body of work that has investigated the range of bone modifications produced on small prey by chimpanzee mastication that, by analogy, can be used to identify carnivory in pre-stone tool hominins. Here, we review these works along with behavioral observations and other neo-taphonomic research. Despite some equifinality with bone modifications produced by baboons and the fact that prey species used in experiments seldom are similar to the natural prey of chimpanzees, we suggest that traces of chimpanzee mastication are sufficiently distinct from those of other predators that they can be used to investigate mastication of vertebrate prey by early hominins.</p>","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 6","pages":"359-372"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41239891","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 wrong ape for early human origins: A skewed view of paleoanthropology and evolutionary theory M., Kay Martin The wrong ape for early human origins: The chimpanzee as a skewed ancestral model, Lanham, MD:\u0000 Lexington Books. ISBN: 9781666923872.","authors":"Scott A. Williams","doi":"10.1002/evan.22007","DOIUrl":"10.1002/evan.22007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47849,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Anthropology","volume":"32 6","pages":"356-358"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134975320","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}