“…This may be required/undertaken at the author's host institution, such as a university or museum, or it may be requested by a funding body in a grant application. The value of including ethics statements in papers has been raised in the past (Squires, Booth, & Roberts, 2019; Squires & García‐Mancuso, 2021; Turner et al, 2018), though little has changed in terms of mandatory ethics statements within the major biological anthropology journals. This is despite the fact that some journals are linked with associations that have set up ethics committees with the aim of embedding ethics into research and associated outputs.…”