Andrea Bamberg Migliano
Biographic Data
| ID | 106947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Bamberg Migliano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea Bamberg |
| FAMILY NAME | Migliano |
| SIGNATURE | MIGLIANO A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4364-2735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Higher-order interactions shape collective human behaviour
Bargaining between the sexes: Outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households
Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000527?via%3Dihub#s4210
Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal
Hunter–gatherer populations underwent a mass extinction in the Neolithic, and in present times face challenges such as explicit sedentarisation policies. An exception is in Nepal, where the nomadic Raute people receive monthly governmental individual payments. One consequence of the money transfers has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption, with nearly all individuals drinking industrially produced alcohol. Here we investigate the Ra…
Hunter–Gatherer children's close-proximity networks: Similarities and differences with cooperative and communal breeding systems
Among vertebrates, allomothering (non-maternal care) is classified as cooperative breeding (help from sexually mature non-breeders, usually close relatives) or communal breeding (shared care between multiple breeders who are not necessarily related). Humans have been described with both labels, most frequently as cooperative breeders. However, few studies have quantified the relative contributions of allomothers according to whether they are (a) …
Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers
Human evolutionary history in Central Africa reflects a deep history of population connectivity. However, Central African hunter-gatherers (CAHGs) currently speak languages acquired from their neighbouring farmers. Hence it remains unclear which aspects of CAHG cultural diversity results from long-term evolution preceding agriculture and which reflect borrowing from farmers. On the basis of musical instruments, foraging tools, specialized vocabul…
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social co…
The making of the oral microbiome in Agta hunter–gatherers
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of species classified as pathogens with age. We also c…
The origins of human cumulative culture: From the foraging niche to collective intelligence
Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated cumulative culture in our species remain unclear. We propose that the cultural capabilities of humans are the evolutionary result of a stepwise transition from the ape-like lifestyle of earlier hominins to the foraging niche still observed in extant hunter-gatherers. Re…
Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups
Theoretical models relating to the evolution of human behaviour usually make assumptions about the kinship structure of social groups. Since humans were hunter–gatherers for most of our evolutionary history, data on the composition of contemporary hunter–gatherer groups has long been used to inform these models. Although several papers have taken a broad view of hunter–gatherer social organisation, it is also useful to explore data from single po…
Global Weirding: Transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers
A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers
Why so many Agta boys? Explaining ‘extreme’ sex ratios in Philippine foragers
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers
Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers
Co-Managers or Co-Residents? Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in the Management of Protected Areas: A Case Study of the Agta in the Philippines
Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: How the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta's health outcomes
Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture
A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from the New Guinea Highlands. We find that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diversified 25–40 thousand years ago (kya), suggesting pre-Holocene population structure in the ancient continent of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania).…
Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands
Friends and family? Evolutionary theory stresses the importance of living with kin, not least because they share some of our genes. Nevertheless, a large-scale assessment of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies has established a consistent pattern of unrelated individuals living together. Dyble et al. used a modeling approach to suggest that a possible answer to this conundrum is that cohabitation choices are being governed equally by men and w…
Evolution of the Pygmy Phenotype: Evidence of Positive Selection from Genome-wide Scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian Pygmies
Human pygmy populations inhabit different regions of the world, from Africa to Melanesia. In Asia, short-statured populations are often referred to as "negritos." Their short stature has been interpreted as a consequence of thermoregulatory, nutritional, and/or locomotory adaptations to life in tropical forests. A more recent hypothesis proposes that their stature is the outcome of a life history trade-off in high-mortality environments, where ea…
The Effects of Mortality, Subsistence, and Ecology on Human Adult Height and Implications forHomoEvolution
The increase in body size observed with the appearance and evolution of Homo is most often attributed to thermoregulatory and locomotor adaptations to environment; increased reliance on animal protein and fat; or increased behavioral flexibility, provisioning, and cooperation leading to decreased mortality rates and slow life histories. It is not easy to test these hypotheses in the fossil record. Therefore, understanding selective pressures shap…
An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia
Whole-genome data indicate that early modern humans expanded into Australia 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.
Genetic diversity and evidence for population admixture in Batak Negritos from Palawan
Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the isolated hunter–gatherer populations in Southeast Asia (SEA) collectively known as “Negritos.” However, the origins and affinities of these groups remain unresolved. Negritos are characterized by their short stature, dark skin color, and wiry hair, and they inhabit the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and the Andaman Islands. Among Philippine Negritos, the Batak are of particular interest in understan…
Why Are Pygmies So Short? A Defense of Migliano's Hypothesis
Migliano has formulated and tested in her three publications (Migliano 2005; Walker et al. 2006; Migliano et al. 2007) a hypothesis explaining pygmy size as the result of a “fast” life history strategy (Charnov 1993) in which early start of reproduction and growth termination are adaptive responses to high external mortality rates. We thank Becker et al. [2010 (this issue)] for the careful analysis of our work and the editors of Human Biology for…
Why Are Pygmies So Short: A Defense of Migliano’s Hypothesis
Why Are Pygmies So Short? A Defense of Migliano’s Hypothesis Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Lucio Vinicius, and Marta Mirazón Lahr Migliano has formulated and tested in her three publications (Migliano 2005; Walker et al. 2006; Migliano et al. 2007) a hypothesis explaining pygmy size as the result of a “fast” life history strategy (Charnov 1993) in which early start of reproduction and growth termination are adaptive responses to high external mortalit…
Evolution of the Pygmy Phenotype: Evidence of Positive Selection from Genome-wide Scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian Pygmies
Human pygmy populations inhabit different regions of the world, from Africa to Melanesia. In Asia, short-statured populations are often referred to as "negritos." Their short stature has been interpreted as a consequence of thermoregulatory, nutritional, and/or locomotory adaptations to life in tropical forests. A more recent hypothesis proposes that their stature is the outcome of a life history trade-off in high-mortality environments, where ea…
Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers
The Effects of Mortality, Subsistence, and Ecology on Human Adult Height and Implications forHomoEvolution
The increase in body size observed with the appearance and evolution of Homo is most often attributed to thermoregulatory and locomotor adaptations to environment; increased reliance on animal protein and fat; or increased behavioral flexibility, provisioning, and cooperation leading to decreased mortality rates and slow life histories. It is not easy to test these hypotheses in the fossil record. Therefore, understanding selective pressures shap…
Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: How the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta's health outcomes
Stature, Mortality, and Life History among Indigenous Populations of the Andaman Islands, 1871-1986
Despite considerable interest in the evolution of small body size, there is little evidence for changes in body size within small-bodied human populations. This study combines anthropometric data from a number of studies of the body size of Andaman Islanders from 1871 to 1986. The colonial history of the Andaman Islands is characterized by high rates of mortality among the indigenous populations. However, long-term conflicts between tribal groups…
Genetic diversity and evidence for population admixture in Batak Negritos from Palawan
Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the isolated hunter–gatherer populations in Southeast Asia (SEA) collectively known as “Negritos.” However, the origins and affinities of these groups remain unresolved. Negritos are characterized by their short stature, dark skin color, and wiry hair, and they inhabit the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and the Andaman Islands. Among Philippine Negritos, the Batak are of particular interest in understan…
Global Weirding: Transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers
Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers
Why Are Pygmies So Short? A Defense of Migliano's Hypothesis
Migliano has formulated and tested in her three publications (Migliano 2005; Walker et al. 2006; Migliano et al. 2007) a hypothesis explaining pygmy size as the result of a “fast” life history strategy (Charnov 1993) in which early start of reproduction and growth termination are adaptive responses to high external mortality rates. We thank Becker et al. [2010 (this issue)] for the careful analysis of our work and the editors of Human Biology for…
Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups
Theoretical models relating to the evolution of human behaviour usually make assumptions about the kinship structure of social groups. Since humans were hunter–gatherers for most of our evolutionary history, data on the composition of contemporary hunter–gatherer groups has long been used to inform these models. Although several papers have taken a broad view of hunter–gatherer social organisation, it is also useful to explore data from single po…
Why so many Agta boys? Explaining ‘extreme’ sex ratios in Philippine foragers
The making of the oral microbiome in Agta hunter–gatherers
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of species classified as pathogens with age. We also c…
Why Are Pygmies So Short: A Defense of Migliano’s Hypothesis
Why Are Pygmies So Short? A Defense of Migliano’s Hypothesis Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Lucio Vinicius, and Marta Mirazón Lahr Migliano has formulated and tested in her three publications (Migliano 2005; Walker et al. 2006; Migliano et al. 2007) a hypothesis explaining pygmy size as the result of a “fast” life history strategy (Charnov 1993) in which early start of reproduction and growth termination are adaptive responses to high external mortalit…
Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers
Human evolutionary history in Central Africa reflects a deep history of population connectivity. However, Central African hunter-gatherers (CAHGs) currently speak languages acquired from their neighbouring farmers. Hence it remains unclear which aspects of CAHG cultural diversity results from long-term evolution preceding agriculture and which reflect borrowing from farmers. On the basis of musical instruments, foraging tools, specialized vocabul…
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social co…
The origins of human cumulative culture: From the foraging niche to collective intelligence
Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated cumulative culture in our species remain unclear. We propose that the cultural capabilities of humans are the evolutionary result of a stepwise transition from the ape-like lifestyle of earlier hominins to the foraging niche still observed in extant hunter-gatherers. Re…
Growth rates and life histories in twenty‐two small‐scale societies
This study investigates variation in body growth (cross‐sectional height and weight velocity) among a sample of 22 small‐scale societies. Considerable variation in growth exists among hunter‐gatherers that overlaps heavily with growth trajectories present in groups focusing more on horticulture. Intergroup variation tends to track environmental conditions, with societies under more favorable conditions displaying faster growth and earlier puberty…
Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies
Explanations for the evolution of human pygmies continue to be a matter of controversy, recently fuelled by the disagreements surrounding the interpretation of the fossil hominin Homo floresiensis . Traditional hypotheses assume that the small body size of human pygmies is an adaptation to special challenges, such as thermoregulation, locomotion in dense forests, or endurance against starvation. Here, we present an analysis of stature, growth, an…
Stature, Mortality, and Life History among Indigenous Populations of the Andaman Islands, 1871-1986
Despite considerable interest in the evolution of small body size, there is little evidence for changes in body size within small-bodied human populations. This study combines anthropometric data from a number of studies of the body size of Andaman Islanders from 1871 to 1986. The colonial history of the Andaman Islands is characterized by high rates of mortality among the indigenous populations. However, long-term conflicts between tribal groups…
Why Are Pygmies So Short? A Defense of Migliano's Hypothesis
Migliano has formulated and tested in her three publications (Migliano 2005; Walker et al. 2006; Migliano et al. 2007) a hypothesis explaining pygmy size as the result of a “fast” life history strategy (Charnov 1993) in which early start of reproduction and growth termination are adaptive responses to high external mortality rates. We thank Becker et al. [2010 (this issue)] for the careful analysis of our work and the editors of Human Biology for…
Why Are Pygmies So Short: A Defense of Migliano’s Hypothesis
Why Are Pygmies So Short? A Defense of Migliano’s Hypothesis Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Lucio Vinicius, and Marta Mirazón Lahr Migliano has formulated and tested in her three publications (Migliano 2005; Walker et al. 2006; Migliano et al. 2007) a hypothesis explaining pygmy size as the result of a “fast” life history strategy (Charnov 1993) in which early start of reproduction and growth termination are adaptive responses to high external mortalit…
An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia
Whole-genome data indicate that early modern humans expanded into Australia 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.
Genetic diversity and evidence for population admixture in Batak Negritos from Palawan
Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the isolated hunter–gatherer populations in Southeast Asia (SEA) collectively known as “Negritos.” However, the origins and affinities of these groups remain unresolved. Negritos are characterized by their short stature, dark skin color, and wiry hair, and they inhabit the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and the Andaman Islands. Among Philippine Negritos, the Batak are of particular interest in understan…
The Effects of Mortality, Subsistence, and Ecology on Human Adult Height and Implications forHomoEvolution
The increase in body size observed with the appearance and evolution of Homo is most often attributed to thermoregulatory and locomotor adaptations to environment; increased reliance on animal protein and fat; or increased behavioral flexibility, provisioning, and cooperation leading to decreased mortality rates and slow life histories. It is not easy to test these hypotheses in the fossil record. Therefore, understanding selective pressures shap…
Evolution of the Pygmy Phenotype: Evidence of Positive Selection from Genome-wide Scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian Pygmies
Human pygmy populations inhabit different regions of the world, from Africa to Melanesia. In Asia, short-statured populations are often referred to as "negritos." Their short stature has been interpreted as a consequence of thermoregulatory, nutritional, and/or locomotory adaptations to life in tropical forests. A more recent hypothesis proposes that their stature is the outcome of a life history trade-off in high-mortality environments, where ea…
Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands
Friends and family? Evolutionary theory stresses the importance of living with kin, not least because they share some of our genes. Nevertheless, a large-scale assessment of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies has established a consistent pattern of unrelated individuals living together. Dyble et al. used a modeling approach to suggest that a possible answer to this conundrum is that cohabitation choices are being governed equally by men and w…
A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from the New Guinea Highlands. We find that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diversified 25–40 thousand years ago (kya), suggesting pre-Holocene population structure in the ancient continent of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania).…
Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture
Co-Managers or Co-Residents? Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in the Management of Protected Areas: A Case Study of the Agta in the Philippines
Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: How the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta's health outcomes
A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers
Why so many Agta boys? Explaining ‘extreme’ sex ratios in Philippine foragers
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers
Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers
Global Weirding: Transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers
The origins of human cumulative culture: From the foraging niche to collective intelligence
Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated cumulative culture in our species remain unclear. We propose that the cultural capabilities of humans are the evolutionary result of a stepwise transition from the ape-like lifestyle of earlier hominins to the foraging niche still observed in extant hunter-gatherers. Re…
Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups
Theoretical models relating to the evolution of human behaviour usually make assumptions about the kinship structure of social groups. Since humans were hunter–gatherers for most of our evolutionary history, data on the composition of contemporary hunter–gatherer groups has long been used to inform these models. Although several papers have taken a broad view of hunter–gatherer social organisation, it is also useful to explore data from single po…
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social co…
The making of the oral microbiome in Agta hunter–gatherers
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of species classified as pathogens with age. We also c…
Bargaining between the sexes: Outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households
Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000527?via%3Dihub#s4210
Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal
Hunter–gatherer populations underwent a mass extinction in the Neolithic, and in present times face challenges such as explicit sedentarisation policies. An exception is in Nepal, where the nomadic Raute people receive monthly governmental individual payments. One consequence of the money transfers has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption, with nearly all individuals drinking industrially produced alcohol. Here we investigate the Ra…
Geography (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Biology (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Population (11 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 works) · Evolutionary biology (9 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)