Tomás Huanca

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used interview and observational data on the use of wild plants by the Tsimane', a foraging-horticultural society in the Bolivian Amazon, and calculated the cultural, practical, economic and total values of 114 plant species from 46 families.

TL;DR: The authors found a statistically significant association between personal and parental and old cohort knowledge, suggesting that, unlike biological transmission, cultural transmission occurs through at least three different, non-mutually exclusive paths: (1) from parents (vertical), (2) from age peers (horizontal), and (3) from older generations (oblique).

TL;DR: The results underscore the importance of local cultural factors to child health and document a potential cost if ethnobotanical knowledge is lost.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for a significant tradeoff between investment in immunity and growth in humans, and an important physiological mechanism through which maintenance effort may have lasting effects on child growth and development is highlighted.

TL;DR: This paper found that although schooling and academic knowledge bear a negative association with local knowledge, the magnitude is low, probably because schooling was partially contextualized, which might help avoid that the provision of universal education comes at the cost of humanity's cultural diversity.