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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024

Beyond the here and now: hunter-gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language.

Brian M Wood, David A Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Jacob A Harris, M Katherine Sayre, Bunga Paolo, Mariamu Anyawire, Audax Z P Mabulla

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Cognitive correlates of human endurance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  3. Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial-social interface.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
    Article
  4. Beyond the here and now: hunter-gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Brian M WoodDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8187-9429
David A RaichlenDepartment of Biological Sciences and Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4940-7886
Herman PontzerDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2397-6543
Jacob A HarrisSchool of Interdisciplinary Forensics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5398-7871
M Katherine SayreDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2554-4058
Bunga PaoloHadza fund, Mangola, Tanzania.
Mariamu AnyawireHadza fund, Mangola, Tanzania.
Audax Z P MabullaDepartment of Archaeology and Heritage, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0001-9591-5497

Funding

Division of Behavioral and Cognitive SciencesDivision of Computing and Communication FoundationsLeakey FoundationMax-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre AnthropologieNational Geographic SocietySBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human evolutionary ecology stands to benefit by integrating theory and methods developed in movement ecology, and in turn, to make contributions to the broader field of movement ecology by leveraging our species' distinct attributes. In this paper, we review data and evolutionary models suggesting that major changes in socio-spatial behaviour accompanied the evolution of language. To illustrate and explore these issues, we present a comparison of GPS measures of the socio-spatial behaviour of Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania to those of olive baboons (

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Biological EvolutionLanguagePapio anubisAnimalsHumansSocial BehaviorSpatial BehaviorTanzaniadisplacementevolution of languageHadzahuman movement ecologyhunter–gatherersolive baboon

Identifiers

PMID39230448
PMCPMC11449209

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