ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
Social ties in the Congo Basin: insights into tropical forest adaptation from BaYaka and their neighbours.
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- Dyadic inter-group cooperation in shotgun hunting activities in a Congo Basin village.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- Intergroup Cooperation in Shotgun Hunting Among BaYaka Foragers and Yambe Farmers from the Republic of the Congo.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Observational
- Tropical forests in the deep human past.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Investigating past and present human adaptation to the Congo Basin tropical forest can shed light on how climate and ecosystem variability have shaped human evolution. Here, we first review and synthesize genetic, palaeoclimatological, linguistic and historical data on the peopling of the Congo Basin. While forest fragmentation led to the increased genetic and geographical divergence of forest foragers, these groups maintained long-distance connectivity. The eventual expansion of Bantu speakers into the Congo Basin provided new opportunities for forging inter-group links, as evidenced by linguistic shifts and historical accounts. Building from our ethnographic work in the northern Republic of the Congo, we show how these inter-group links between forest forager communities as well as trade relationships with neighbouring farmers facilitate adaptation to ecoregions through knowledge exchange. While researchers tend to emphasize forager-farmer interactions that began in the Iron Age, we argue that foragers' cultivation of relational wealth with groups across the region played a major role in the initial occupation of the Congo Basin and, consequently, in cultural evolution among the ancestors of contemporary peoples. This article is part of the theme issue 'Tropical forests in the deep human past'.
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