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Human altruism is also a question of genetics
Given the importance of cooperation at the heart of human communities, science has looked for ways of turning it into a constant quality. According to many scientists, starting with Darwin and William Hamilton to the more recent theories of Edward Wilson and David Wilson, the...
Young and participative: requirements of the new model of cultural transmission
Imitation as a method of human learning has never been a simple process. The cultural evolution of the human species based on this method continues to be established in a selective attitude - the selected models are...
Joseph Tainter, anthropologist and historian
"We'll never be able to say 'Aha! We are sustainable!'"
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The effect of rainfall during gestation and early childhood on adult height
This work collects the results of a study in a foraging-horticultural society of native Amazonians in Bolivia, the Tsimane’. The objective was to determine if the rainfall during gestation and early childhood could affect adult...
Can We Trust an Adult's Estimate of Parental School Attainment?
Methods used in social sciences need to be critically revised so we can avoid biases produced by flawed measurements. This work revises the accuracy of a common method in social sciences: asking adults about their parents school...
Measuring the pubis: new parameters to date osseous remains
This work defines new parameters which can be used in Forensic Anthropology and Palaeoanthropology to study and define the age, state of health and life conditions of populations in the past. In particular, the authors have defined the growth of the...
