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Over more than four decades, American planning has evolved from a largely technocratic and regulatory practice into a more collaborative, interdisciplinary, and community-oriented profession. This featured interview traces Sue Schwartz’s reflections...
The late Robert L. Carneiro was a prominent anthropologist who devoted his life to the study of political evolution and the evolution of complex societies. In the 1960s and 1970s, he and his colleagues created a cross-cultural dataset for their...
Purpose of Review Recent changes in donor characteristics, preservation technologies, regulatory and allocation policies, and reimbursements are reshaping U.S. deceased donor organ procurement and creating pressure for operational redesign....
Evolved nests are species-specific developmental systems that support biological, psychological, and social needs. The human evolved nest includes practices such as responsive care, self-directed play, and extensive affectionate touch. Previous...
Warum kann jeder Mensch aber kein Tier lernen, mit exakten Zahlen zu rechnen? Und warum hat sich die mathematische Begabung des Menschen im Verlauf der Evolution überhaupt herausgebildet? In seinem spannend und auch für Nichtexperten leicht lesbaren...
Founded in 1672 and rebranded in 1894, Rongbaozhai (荣宝斋) developed from a Qing dynasty stationery shop into a leading cultural institution specializing in fine art, calligraphy, and scholarly collectibles. Over more than three centuries, it...
This study explores the dynamic evolution of purpose among urban Indian married women, highlighting how developmental transitions and cultural expectations shape their sense of self and purpose across two developmental periods of adulthood. Using a...
Visual representations encode theoretical assumptions, historical conventions, and cultural values that shape how scientific concepts are understood. In evolution education this is particularly consequential, as the persistent circulation of March of...
Human evolutionary success has been attributed to the capacity to accumulate knowledge and skills over generations, via cultural transmission. But explanations for the distinctiveness of human culture remain heavily debated. Accounts appealing to...
The cultural landscapes of traditional Chinese settlements stand as tangible witnesses to historical transformations. They embed a variety of distinctive genes that have shaped regional development, together forming a unique body of knowledge known...
China’s innovation trajectory has followed the latecomer catch-up paradigm from technology introduction to indigenous innovation, yet the evolutionary processes and mechanisms shaping regional technological pathways remain poorly understood. This...
Understanding how mythological imagery is visually translated in modern mass media requires moving beyond case-based interpretation and subjective image analysis. This study constructs a corpus of 496 posters from 110 Chinese mythological animated...
The interdisciplinary project ‘Schools in time of change’ studies the transformation of school and teaching cultures in Germany between the 1970s and 2020s. It is based on data from the so-called ‘Three-State Study’ of 1978/79 by Helmut Fend (Fend 1982...
This article examines the reconfiguration of ritual within traditional dance practices in the Global South through a comparative ethnographic study of the Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance in China and the Balinese Legong Dance in Indonesia. Drawing on...
Since the 19th century, numerous approaches have been developed to determine the relationship between Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and humans as cultural beings. All reductionist approaches, from Social Darwinism and its normative claims to...
This article explores the role of material innovation as a central force in human evolution, framing it within niche construction theory (NCT) as originally developed by Odling-Smee, Laland, and Feldman, extended into archaeology and anthropology by...
Across cultures, people find many of the same things funny. Competing theories of humor have been forwarded to account for this. Adopting a view of humor as an evolved response to benign violations, I argue that four comic themes characterize most...
The concept Shangdi上帝 in Chinese has undergone significant semantic evolution, from its association with the supreme deity in ancient Chinese cosmology to its increasing connection with the Christian God in specific historical and discursive...
Humans tend to be prosocial towards in-group members, but often hostile towards out-group members. In line with ethology and evolutionary psychology, this study develops the concept of Durkheimian learning, meaning that groups actively integrate...
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Aims and scope Journal of World Prehistoryis an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed, original treatments of the prehistory of...
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Biological Theory is devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of evolution and cognition with an emphasis on the conceptual integration afforded...
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Human Natureis dedicated to advancing the interdisciplinary investigation of the biological, social, and environmental factors that underlie human...
