The Hadzabe tribespeople of Tanzania are no longer strangers to the rest of the world, but they are divided on how to respond ...

Pairing an evolutionary anthropologist with a child psychiatrist has produced a new study that provides interesting insights into how children’s mental well-being and education might be improved by ...

Infants and toddlers may be psychologically wired to thrive with high levels of "sensitive care" and personal attention, according to a study conducted with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies.

The oft-used description of early humans as "hunter-gatherers" should be changed to "gatherer-hunters," at least in the Andes of South America, according to groundbreaking research led by a University ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

Anthropologists who have trekked to isolated regions of the world to observe hunter-gatherer societies—whether in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere—have consistently been impressed by the ...

(CNN) — In a forest community where people forage to survive, hunters return from a successful outing with fresh kills slung over their shoulders. If you think you can picture them based on common ...

Hawkes, Ph.D., led a study of the Hadza and found that relatively equal outcomes are often maintained through “demand sharing ...

Anthropologists who have trekked to isolated regions of the world to observe hunter-gatherer societies—whether in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere—have consistently been impressed by the ...