We argue that language evolution started like the evolution of reading and writing, through cultural evolutionary processes. Genuinely new behavioural patterns emerged from collective exploratory processes that individuals could learn because of their ...

Early hunter-gatherer women in the ancient Americas hunted big game just as much as men did, a new study suggests.

Two Mi'kmaw teachers from Listuguj, Que. are on the front lines of language revitalization with their Forest Kindergarten class. They have incorporated everyday words into the classic school curriculum through outdoor learning, including some ice fishing on Chaleur Bay, in the Gaspé region.

Scientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.

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Researchers believe that gestures used by great apes were an evolutionary "starting point" for our language.