Gurven Michael, Stieglitz Jonathan, Trumble Benjamin, Blackwell Aaron D, Beheim Bret, Davis Helen, Hooper Paul, Kaplan Hillard
Department of Anthropology, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA.
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
Evol Anthropol. 2017 Apr;26(2):54-73. doi: 10.1002/evan.21515.
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio-behavioral study of the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life-history evolution. One aim is to understand the bidirectional connections between life history and social behavior in a high-fertility, kin-based context lacking amenities of modern urban life (e.g. sanitation, banks, electricity). Another aim is to understand how a high pathogen burden influences health and well-being during development and adulthood. A third aim addresses how modernization shapes human life histories and sociality. Here we outline the project's goals, history, and main findings since its inception in 2002. We reflect on the implications of current findings and highlight the need for more coordinated ethnographic and biomedical study of contemporary nonindustrial populations to address broad questions that can situate evolutionary anthropology in a key position within the social and life sciences.
齐马内健康与生命历程项目是一项关于人类生命历程的综合生物行为研究，旨在检验人类生命史进化的相互竞争假说。一个目标是了解在缺乏现代城市生活便利设施（如卫生设施、银行、电力）的高生育率、以亲属关系为基础的环境中，生命史与社会行为之间的双向联系。另一个目标是了解高病原体负担如何影响发育和成年期的健康与福祉。第三个目标是探讨现代化如何塑造人类生命史和社会性。在此，我们概述该项目自2002年启动以来的目标、历史和主要发现。我们思考当前研究结果的意义，并强调需要对当代非工业人口进行更协调的人种志和生物医学研究，以解决那些能使进化人类学在社会和生命科学中占据关键地位的广泛问题。
