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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.011
	Living to fight another day: The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare
	Spikins P.; Needham A.; Wright B.; Dytham C.; Gatta M.; Hitchens G.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0277-3791
起始页码	98
结束页码	118
卷号	217
英文摘要	Evidence of care for the ill and injured amongst Neanderthals, inferred through skeletal evidence for survival from severe illness and injury, is widely accepted. However, healthcare practices have been viewed primarily as an example of complex cultural behaviour, often discussed alongside symbolism or mortuary practices. Here we argue that care for the ill and injured is likely to have a long evolutionary history and to have been highly effective in improving health and reducing mortality risks. Healthcare provisioning can thus be understood alongside other collaborative ‘risk pooling’ strategies such as collaborative hunting, food sharing and collaborative parenting. For Neanderthals in particular the selective advantages of healthcare provisioning would have been elevated by a variety of ecological conditions which increased the risk of injury as well their particular behavioural adaptations which affected the benefits of promoting survival from injury and illness. We argue that healthcare provisioning was not only a more significant evolutionary adaptation than has previously been acknowledged, but moreover may also have been essential to Neanderthal occupation at the limits of the North Temperate Zone. © 2018 The Authors
英文关键词	Healthcare; Hunting practices; Injury; Medicine; Mortality risk; Neanderthal; Palaeopathology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Behavioral research; Diseases; Ecology; Health risks; Medicine; Hunting practices; Injury; Mortality risk; Neanderthals; Palaeopathology; Health care; adaptation; environmental conditions; evolutionary biology; hunting; injury; medicine; mortality; mortality risk; Neanderthal; pathology
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151882
作者单位	PALAEO Research Centre in Human Evolution and Palaeoecology and Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom; Hull York Medical School and Department of Health Sciences, University of York, YORK, United Kingdom; Department of Biology, University of York, YORK, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Spikins P.,Needham A.,Wright B.,et al. Living to fight another day: The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare[J],2019,217.
APA	Spikins P.,Needham A.,Wright B.,Dytham C.,Gatta M.,&Hitchens G..(2019).Living to fight another day: The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare.Quaternary Science Reviews,217.
MLA	Spikins P.,et al."Living to fight another day: The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare".Quaternary Science Reviews 217(2019).