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What anthropological research on early human societies can teach us about improving our jobs today.

The world’s earliest seafarers who reached remote Pacific islands nearly 3,000 years ago were a matrilocal society, with communities organized around the female lineage, researchers said, citing studies of ancient DNA. The research, based on genetic sequencing of 164 people who lived 2,800 to 300 years ago, suggested that some of the earliest inhabitants of islands in Oceania had population structures in which women almost always remained in their communities after marriage, while men left the...

DNA analysis of 164 individuals from 2,800 to 300 years ago shows men would move to be with their wives

Chen, Du, Ge); Université Toulouse 1 Capitole ( Micheletti) "The evolutionary basis of our preferences and the cultural evolutionary dynamics of our beliefs drive behavioural change, so understanding these evolutionary processes can help inform individual and government decision-making in the face of a pandemic." Before a vaccine for COVID-19 had been developed, and until it is widely available, stopping the spread of the virus must rely on behaviour change by limiting contact between people....