Despite our focus on adaptation and human responses to climate, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) are largely absent from conversations about contemporary “climate-change adaptation,” a term popular in other disciplines, the development world, and related policy decisions. EBAs are missing a big opportunity to contribute to impactful, time-sensitive applied work: we have extensive theoretical and empirical knowledge pertinent to conversations about climate-change adaptation and to helping support communities as they cope. This special issue takes a tour of EBA contributions to our understanding of climate-change adaptation, from data on past and contemporary human communities to theoretically informed predictions about how individuals and communities will respond to climate change now and in the future. First, however, we must establish what we mean by “climate change” and “adaptation,” along with other terms commonly used by EBAs; review what EBAs know about adaptation and about human responses to climate change; and identify just a few topics EBAs study that are pertinent to ongoing conversations about climate-change adaptation. In this article, we do just that.

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人类对气候变化的适应：特刊简介

尽管我们专注于适应和人类对气候的反应，进化和生物人类学家 (EBA) 在关于当代“气候变化适应”的对话中基本上缺席，这个术语在其他学科、发展世界和相关政策决定中很流行。EBA 错过了为有影响力的、对时间敏感的应用工作做出贡献的大好机会：我们拥有与气候变化适应对话和帮助支持社区应对的广泛理论和经验知识。本期特刊介绍了 EBA 对我们理解气候变化适应的贡献，从过去和当代人类社区的数据到关于个人和社区将如何应对现在和未来气候变化的理论预测。然而首先，指“气候变化”和“适应”，以及 EBA 常用的其他术语；审查 EBA 对适应和人类对气候变化的反应的了解；并确定 EBA 研究的与正在进行的关于气候变化适应的对话相关的几个主题。在本文中，我们就是这样做的。