![]() Several journals now have this format, but few are in our field. I am ever grateful to all our editors, authors, reviewers and publishers for their invaluable contributions of time and thought to our journal.įor 2022 I have decided to introduce a new category of paper, Perspectives. We are also building a collection on gendered conflict in the family, and another on evolutionary biomechanics and human locomotion. However, Darwin is not cancelled here, and we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of his ground-breaking ‘Expression of Emotions’ with another special collection this coming year. Reading Descent (again or more likely for the first time) not only highlighted Darwin's amazing prescience, but also forced us to confront the horrible language used about race and sex in the nineteenth century. We celebrated the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Descent of Man with a special collection. Reference Schuppli, Van Cauwenberghe, Mitra Setia and Haun2021) to how related hunter–gatherers are to their group (Dyble et al., Reference Dyble, Migliano, Page and Smith2021) to what social contract theorists thought about human nature (Seabright et al., Reference Seabright, Stieglitz and Van der Straeten2021) and cultural evolutionary insights to identify overlooked ‘hidden gems’ in the world of movies (Morin and Sobchuk, Reference Morin and Sobchuk2021 apparently including ‘Into the Wild’, which, if you somehow managed to overlook that one, is definitely a great suggestion for whiling away your time in covid-inflicted self-isolation). We continue to publish on a diverse range of topics, ranging from object manipulation in wild orangutans (Schuppli, Van Cauwenberghe et al. However, our research goes on, and I am delighted you have continued to submit some of it to Evolutionary Human Sciences, despite this being the first year when we have had to charge an open access publication fee. Despite the exasperation of this seemingly unending pandemic, I can't help feeling a certain scientific fascination at watching a disease evolve in real time, and how people gauge the risks, make decisions, assess their priorities and change their behaviour, often well ahead of any government instructions on how to behave. While academic life was trying to get back to normal, and almost succeeding over the summer and autumn, we now have omicron strangling our social and professional lives. ![]() Writing this as Christmas approaches, I am completing my umpteenth Lateral Flow Test, cancelling flights as France closes its borders to Brits, and realising that the turkey I ordered for Christmas lunch is now looking somewhat on the large side.
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