nice article, congrats!

We are currently testing these ideas with empirical data collected by our project in Malaysia, the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP). Stay tuned!

www.orangaslihealth.org

Why dampened inflammatory activity?

Four possible reasons explored here: low levels of adiposity, high physical activity levels, diets consisting of minimally processed foods, and infections from helminths

We propose that non-industrialized peoples have lower osteoarthritis risk dude to having dampened inflammatory activity, a key factor in osteoarthritis pathogenesis.

From a 2004 autobiographical piece by Bruce published in Before Farming (now Hunter Gatherer Research), well worth a read!

"We should be careful not to fall into the trap that only hunting mattered in the Paleolithic, and therefore only a revisionist picture of our evolutionary past in which women hunted will ever fully justify egalitarian gender norms in contemporary society."

Our current thinking on this topic is in this preprint on Man the Hunter.

osf.io/preprints/os...

In light of this, was Ardrey perhaps more influential for evolutionary psychology than for human behavioral ecology and cultural evolution?

But...I did learn that Leda Cosmides was influenced by The Territorial Imperative early in her career.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

good question. no, we didn't, but perhaps good to consider for our round of revision! thanks

We find evidence for behavioral drive in the hominin fossil record. Changes in graminivorous behavior preceded corresponding changes in dental morphology by ~700,000 years