Our primate ancestors evolved a complex sociopolitical order based on a social dominance hierarchy in multi-male/multi-female groups. The emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin line, together with environmental developments which made a diet of meat from large animals fi tness enhancing, as well as cultural innovation in the form of fi re and cooking, created a niche fo...

Cross-cultural education is thought to develop critical consciousness of how unequal distributions of power and privilege affect people's health. Learners in different sociopolitical settings can join together in developing critical consciousness-awareness of power and privilege dynamics in society-by means of communication technology. The aim of this research was to define strengths and limita...

Geographic and genetic details of samples used in the NRY analyses.

Kinship is central to an understanding of sociopolitical organization and the organization of production in Chaco Canyon. Between A.D. 700 and 900, lifeways in the Chacoan wor7ld underwent a transformation that reflects the evolution of matrilocal residence. Matrilocal groups became the foundation of a polity based on a corporate political strategy. Matrilocality provided the peoples of the Cha...

What is the difference between a model and a metanarrative? This is not the opening line of a humorist but a serious question. According to some, a metanarrative is “a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other ‘little stories’ within conceptual models that make the stories into a whole.”[1] If this explanation is correct then there is no difference between a model and a metanarrati...