Ian Tattersall
Ian Tattersall
Nobody disputes that nature is meaningfully "packaged" in some way. But debate persists over exactly how (and even whether) the boundaries dividing taxa should (can) be drawn. At one end of the scale, some zealots abstrusely deny real exist...
Colin Groves
Colin Groves
Biologists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries all bandied about the term "species," but very rarely actually said what they meant by it. Often, however, one can get inside their thinking by piecing together some of their ...
Identifying primate species [0.03%]
识别灵长类物种
John G Fleagle
John G Fleagle
From forest fires to fisheries management: anthropology, conservation biology, and historical ecology [0.03%]
从森林大火到渔业管理：人类学、保护生物学和历史生态学
Todd J Braje,Torben C Rick
Todd J Braje
Human-environmental relationships have long been of interest to a variety of scientists, including ecologists, biologists, anthropologists, and many others. In anthropology, this interest was especially prevalent among cultural ecologists o...
Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity: a review of findings and future directions [0.03%]
关于祖母及其对人类寿命进化的影响的研究回顾及未来展望
Kristen Hawkes,James E Coxworth
Kristen Hawkes
Women and female great apes both continue giving birth into their forties, but not beyond. However humans live much longer than other apes do. Even in hunting and gathering societies, where the mortality rate is high, adult life spans avera...
W Scott McGraw,Lee R Berger
W Scott McGraw
Most scholars agree that avoiding predators is a central concern of lemurs, monkeys, and apes. However, given uncertainties about the frequency with which primates actually become prey, the selective importance of predation in primate evolu...
Kenneth M Weiss
Kenneth M Weiss
Brooke A Scelza
Brooke A Scelza
When Charles Darwin set out to relate his theory of evolution by natural selection to humans he discovered that a complementary explanation was needed to properly understand the great variation seen in human behavior. The resulting work, Th...
Ruth Mace
Ruth Mace
Here I review recent research on reproductive conflict between females in families and how it influences their reproductive behaviour. Kin selection can favor cooperation between parent and offspring, siblings, or unrelated co-residents who...
The Impact of male reproductive skew on kin structure and sociality in multi-male groups [0.03%]
雄性繁殖偏好的性别结构与多雄群的社会性的影响
Anja Widdig
Anja Widdig
Patterns of within-group relatedness are expected to affect the prospects for cooperation among group members through kin selection. It has long been established that dispersal patterns determine the availability of kin and there is ample e...