A recent article by Ocobock and Lacy (Ocobock & Lacy, 2023) argues that human females are “just as, if not more, capable as males at performing arduous physical tasks” and therefore likely to have “meaningfully engaged in hunting during our evolutionary past.” This is a direct challenge to the (generally accepted) canon that gendered subsistence activities are a key feature of the human ecological niche, with men typically contributing more to subsistence via endurance hunting and women through plant and small-prey foraging and other activities more compatible with women's reproductive roles and energetic trade-offs. In support of their argument, Ocobock and Lacy provide a comprehensive and novel review of the aspects of women's skeletal, muscular, and hormonal biology that may confer greater cardiometabolic protection and even enhanced athletic endurance and recovery capabilities relative to men. We agree with the authors that women have been woefully underrepresented in exercise physiology studies, and we hope that their review motivates further research into previously unexamined variation in women's physiological and athletic abilities.

The news has been called “the first draft of history,” yet news publishers have usually left it to libraries and archives to collect, organize, and preserve the news they print. Libraries thus serve the essential societal role of ensuring that these materials are available to future generations of historians to make sense of the past. The nonprofit Internet Archive is a new kind of library built for the task of collecting the vast and various sources of news and providing free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public via the internet. This article will briefly describe the Internet Archive’s efforts to collect, preserve, organize, and make available the content of newspapers, past and present.