Today I'll talk about the one explanation I know of for how life could have some natural transcendent purpose – some purpose, that is, above and beyond the interests of any individual or group. It's a ...

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their ...

Despite long-standing ideas about the importance of thumb evolution in tool use and development, questions remain about exactly when human-like manual dexterity and efficient thumb use arose--and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The journal advances the Association's ...

"This book is about the irreducibility of human evolution to purely biological properties and processes, for human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories ...

Maintaining and restoring biocultural diversity: the evolution of a role for ethnobiology / Luisa Maffi -- Ethnobotanical convergence, divergence, and change among the Hoti of the Venezuelan Guayana / ...

Conservation & Society, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2022), pp. 278-279 (2 pages) Bridgewater, P. and I.D. Rotherham. 2019. A critical perspective on the concept of biocultural diversity and its emerging role in ...