EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY进化人类学
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY(英文缩写 EVOL ANTHROPOL),ISSN 1060-1538,eISSN 1520-6505,中文译名:进化人类学 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-11-01 至 2026-10-31，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
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历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
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| 2021 | 4.766 | Q1 |
| 2022 | 3.700 | Q1 |
| 2023 | 4.600 | Q1 |
| 2024 | 3.100 | Q1 |
| 2025 | 3.400 | Q1 |
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY 最新收录文献
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1. Primate Play and the Classificatory Making of Human Nature.
PMID:日期:2026-08-25Primate play is often interpreted as a developmental activity through which immature individuals acquire capacities used later in life. This essay uses play to examine a wider process in behavioral research: how classification helps produce behavioral data and shapes the explanations those data can support. It asks how juvenile actions are classified as play and become evidence for claims about development, evolution, and "human nature." I argue that the same analogies to adult behavior that help recognize and organize juvenile actions as play later reappear in explanations of the roles or capacities that play is proposed to develop. Examples show how such developmental hypotheses become entangled with culturally familiar narratives of gender and human evolution, particularly as scientific claims circulate publicly. A comparative anthropology of play should keep these evidentiary steps visible, distinguish adult analogies from demonstrated developmental outcomes, and situate play within immature primates' immediate social and material worlds.
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2. Through Time and Across Traits: Evaluating Explanations of Human Evolution.
PMID:日期:2026-08-20We argue that current explanatory practice misses two situations that can arise in any lineage, not only ours. The first is dynamic: traits continue changing in one direction when a lineage's own niche construction keeps enlarging the problem it faces. The second is unifying: many traits change together and may require one explanation rather than several. Both cases bear on Tinbergen's four questions, the test of explanatory completeness, and both require extending his function question: what is a trait for? An answer that names a problem of fixed size cannot explain continued change. We call a problem of rising magnitude a gradient, and one that serves many traits a unifying gradient. We set out five questions that any complete gradient explanation must answer, map the major hypotheses of human evolution onto this scheme, and use our Prey-Size Decline hypothesis as a worked example. The proposed framework does not depend on that example.
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3. Exploring the Semantic Bog of Definitions of Domestication.
PMID:日期:2026-08-18The concept of domestication is important for the biological and social sciences but is framed within Western scientific paradigms that exclude other epistemologies. All human societies engage in multispecies relationships shaped by their own ontologies with intentional and unintentional human actions that often result in what Western scientists call domestication. This essay reviews some historical and contemporary definitions of domestication, incorporating ethnographic insights from some Amazonian Indigenous Peoples, to reveal how universal definitions obscure human agency and cultural diversity. The essay critiques recent expansions of domestication's scope to all multispecies interactions involving humans and highlights pathways and practices across agroecological contexts. Recognizing other ontologies and epistemologies, and contextualizing domestication within specific human-plant-animal relationships can challenge colonial narratives and foster clearer definitions. This approach enriches our understanding of domestication by embracing its complexity and cultural variability, while promoting more inclusive scientific discourse.
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5. A Critical Endorsement.
5. 一项关键性的支持PMID:日期:2026-08-03Our contribution provides an overview of Wilfrid Le Gros Clark's early life and career, his developing interest in human evolution, and how invitations from Robert Broom and Louis Leakey encouraged him to visit South Africa to see the southern African hominin fossil evidence at firsthand. That experience converted Le Gros Clark from being skeptical of Dart and Broom's interpretations to being one of their foremost supporters. Le Gros Clark's conversion resulted in a brief but heated dispute involving Solly Zuckerman that led to Le Gros Clark focusing on the interpretation of the early fossil evidence for human evolution for the rest of his career, while Zuckerman shifted his attention to science policy. The combination of Le Gros Clark's considerable reputation and his steadfast support were crucial elements in the development of paleoanthropology within Africa.
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6. Impacted Bones: Can Extant Primates Help Identify Tool Use in Early Hominins?
6. 受影响的骨骼：现存灵长类动物能帮助识别早期人类使用工具吗？PMID:日期:2026-07-20Despite recent advances pushing back the earliest record of tool use, how and when it first emerged in hominins, and the extent to which it featured amongst the numerous co-existing species, remain critical questions in paleoanthropology. In addition to analyzing fossils and lithic toolkits, novel strides in understanding this might be made by studying the skeletons of the great apes, as well as more distantly related tool-using primates and applying resultant findings to the fossil record via predictive modelling. We review current methods of extrapolating tool-use capabilities in extinct and extant taxa and provide an innovative methodological framework to analyze osteological remains for evidence of percussive tool use, using chimpanzees as a case study. We propose a shift in current methodological practice, wherein both sides of the body, rather than just one, should be routinely scanned to understand of the effect percussive tool use on primate bone. Key species, including long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis ssp.), capuchins (Sapajus and Cebus sp.) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ssp.), all of whom engage in lithic percussion, should be the work's focus. Due to bone's dynamic ability to respond to mechanical strain, percussive forms of tool use, like nut-cracking, could cause morphological changes in the dominant hands of tool users as compared to their non-dominant hand, or the hands of primates who do not engage in percussive behaviors. However, this potential "damage signature" has not been quantified. Thus, we propose a methodology for examining the effect of percussive tool use on primate bone by scanning skeletal remains bilaterally, analyzing directional asymmetry, and using machine learning to discern patterns of variation. Long-term, our proposed methodology may be extrapolated to examine the lasting impact of tool use on the bones of extinct hominins.
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7. The Origins of Fashion.
7. 时尚的起源PMID:日期:2026-07-01[中文摘要] 本文将时尚重新概念化为一种深时的身体交流系统，而非现代消费社会的副产品。我们将时尚定义为一种社会传播的身体展示系统，其中模式化的变异在共享的外表惯例中发生。在考古学上，当反复出现的身体改造和装饰形式与其在选择、组合和排列上具有社会意义的差异共存时，时尚便变得可识别。从这个视角来看，时尚通过人类身体的长期文化化过程而出现，在此过程中，外表成为传达身份、归属、地位和社会关系日益重要的媒介。考古证据表明，这一过程至少始于40万年前的颜料使用，随着个人装饰品的出现而加剧，并在旧石器时代晚期、新石器时代和金属时代发展为区域分化的身体展示系统。借鉴考古学、人类学和认知方法，我们将这一轨迹解释为一个文化演化过程，涉及身体变异新形式的产生、其通过社会习得惯例的传播，以及其在变化的社会和经济条件下的持续、转变或消失。我们认为，时尚作为一种外化的社会记忆系统发挥作用，通过将社会信息嵌入物质形式来降低认知需求。在此意义上，时尚作为一种文化技术而出现，使社会信息通过身体展示变得日益可见、可解释和可传播。
[英文摘要] This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep-time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance. Archaeologically, fashion becomes identifiable when recurring forms of body modification and ornamentation coexist with socially meaningful differences in their selection, combination, and arrangement. From this perspective, fashion emerged through the long-term culturalization of the human body, whereby appearance became an increasingly important medium for communicating identity, affiliation, status, and social relationships. Archaeological evidence suggests that this process began at least 400,000 years ago with pigment use, intensified with the emergence of personal ornaments, and developed into regionally differentiated systems of bodily display during the Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Metal Ages. Drawing on archaeological, anthropological, and cognitive approaches, we interpret this trajectory as a cultural evolutionary process involving the generation of novel forms of bodily variation, their transmission through socially learned conventions, and their persistence, transformation, or disappearance under changing social and economic conditions. We argue that fashion functioned as an externalized social memory system that reduced cognitive demands by embedding social information in material form. In this sense, fashion emerged as a cultural technology that made social information increasingly visible, interpretable, and transmissible through bodily display.
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8. Silence as an Overlooked Catalyzer for Primate Vocal Evolution.
8. 沉默：灵长类发声演化中被忽视的催化剂PMID:日期:2026-07-01Language is inherently relational, prompting comparative studies to prioritize social, gregarious, and voluble primates as evolutionary models. By prevailing theory, solitary and dispersed primates ought to be silent or communicatively impoverished, but this is often presumed, not empirically verified, with these species' capacities seldom being brought to bear on evolutionary theories based on social drivers. This skewed sampling could mask other valuable but hitherto disregarded sources of information and inference obfuscated by the spotlights of the social stage. Orangutans-the only hominids living without permanent social groups-are also the only nonhuman primate known to share with humans two hallmark features of language: displaced vocal reference (where mothers delay alarm calls to teach offspring about past predator encounters) and vocal hierarchies (with vocal motifs nested in self-similar motifs). The description of such traits in the most private and reserved great ape highlights a hidden precondition for vocal evolution: extended and elaborated vocal patterns and functions, which epitomize vocal sophistication, are time-sensitive and require attentive listening without interruption for correct processing. The functional benefits of elaborate and complex sound combinations partly depend on receivers being capable of vocal suppression and impulse control in response to others. Conversely, species with frequent, rapid and reactive social chatter incur "town square taxes" that interrupt and constrain, rather than promote, vocal elaboration and complex patterning. Silence remains a critical but undertheorized resource for fostering communicative and cognitive sophistication, helping reframe the (a)social prerequisites for primate vocal evolution and the emergence of language amongst ancestral hominids.
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9. Diversifying Methods in Evolutionary Anthropology: Autophotography as a Tool for Quasi-Naturalistic Observation of Human Behavior.
9. 进化人类学方法的多样化：自拍摄影作为人类行为准自然观察的工具PMID:日期:2026-07-01[中文摘要] 对人类行为的全面进化解释要求同时考虑生物学、地方生态学和文化。历史上，进化人类学通过自然主义观察整合了这些维度，这种观察提供了对行为如何在日常环境中展开的直接洞察。然而，在许多当代情境中，由于进入私人空间存在困难，传统的观察方法变得不切实际，导致此类方法的衰落。尽管进化人类学家已逐渐转向实验研究和更大规模的数据集，但直接观察所提供的语境丰富性并不容易被其他方法所替代。为此，并且鉴于对探究机制和方法多样化的兴趣重新兴起，我们引入并反思了自我摄影法——一种参与者通过照片记录其生活各方面的视觉方法——作为进化人类学中一种实用的、准自然主义的观察工具。在其局限性范围内，这种创造性的、由参与者主导的方法可能有助于恢复自然主义观察的部分优势，同时适应当代田野研究场景。
[英文摘要] A comprehensive evolutionary account of human behavior demands simultaneous consideration of biology, local ecology, and culture. Historically, evolutionary anthropology integrated these dimensions through naturalistic observations which offered direct insight into how behaviors unfold within everyday settings. However, in many contemporary contexts, traditional observations are impractical due to challenges in accessing private spaces, contributing to the decline of such methods. While evolutionary anthropologists have gradually pivoted to experimentation and larger datasets, the contextual richness afforded by direct observation is not readily replaced by other approaches. In response, and in light of renewed interest in investigating mechanisms and methodological diversification, we introduce and reflect on autophotography-a visual method in which participants document aspects of their lives through photographs-as a pragmatic, quasi‑naturalistic observational tool for evolutionary anthropology. Within its limitations, this creative, participant‑led approach may help recover some strengths of naturalistic observation while adapting to contemporary field sites.
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10. Why Do Humans Exercise? A Neuro-Evolutionary Framework for Discretionary Physical Effort.
10. 人类为何锻炼？一种关于自主性体力付出的神经演化框架PMID:日期:2026-06[中文摘要] 人类进化使体力活动成为生存的必需条件。现代环境将努力与生态回报脱钩，产生了一种进化失配，倾向于能量节约而非自主运动。本综述区分了以生存为基础的体力活动——与生存直接耦合的祖先状态——与自主性锻炼——在缺乏即时代谢需求情况下进行的自愿行为。本文勾勒了一个神经进化框架，将自主性锻炼特征化为对原本为生存而塑造的神经系统的功能性再利用，其通过进化上保守的努力-奖赏估值回路运作，该回路计算情境依赖的成本-收益权衡。三条互补的进化路径介导这一过程：稳态补偿，即锻炼恢复祖先的生理维持信号；代价信号，即锻炼作为质量的诚实表型展示；以及奖赏重编码，即人类中皮层边缘回路将抽象意义和奖赏赋予体力消耗。这些机制解释了神经生物学外适应和文化中介如何使当代人群在缺乏生态必要性的情况下仍能维持持续的自愿努力。
[英文摘要] Hominin evolution made physical activity obligatory for survival. Modern environments decoupled effort from ecological returns, generating an evolutionary mismatch that favors energy conservation over voluntary movement. This review distinguishes between subsistence-based physical activity, the ancestral condition directly coupled to survival, and discretionary exercise, a voluntary behavior performed in the absence of immediate metabolic necessity. It delineates a neuro-evolutionary framework characterizing discretionary exercise as the functional repurposing of neural systems originally shaped for subsistence, operating through evolutionarily conserved effort-reward valuation circuitry that computes context-dependent cost-benefit trade-offs. Three complementary evolutionary pathways mediate this process: homeostatic compensation, where exercise reinstates ancestral physiological maintenance signals; costly signaling, where exercise functions as an honest phenotypic display of quality; and reward recoding, where human mesocorticolimbic circuitry attributes abstract significance and reward to physical exertion. These mechanisms explain how neurobiological exaptation and cultural mediation enable sustained voluntary effort in contemporary populations despite the absence of ecological necessity.