The Collector Hypothesis : Who Benefits More from Art, the Artist or the Collector? [0.03%]
收藏家假设——艺术作品更大的价值来源于艺术家还是收藏家？
Piotr Sorokowski,Jerzy Luty,Wojciech Małecki et al.
Piotr Sorokowski et al.
Human fascination with art has deep evolutionary roots, yet its role remains a puzzle for evolutionary theory. Although its widespread presence across cultures suggests a potential adaptive function, determining its evolutionary origins req...
Lisa Morgan Johnson,Adrian V Bell,Marianna Di Paolo
Lisa Morgan Johnson
The coordination of beliefs, norms, and behaviors is foundational to theories of group formation. However, because beliefs and norms are not directly observable, signaling mechanisms are required to build reliable signals of latent traits. ...
Sexual Desire is not Partner-Specific : Evidence for a Positive Association Between Desire for One's Romantic Partner and Desire for Alternative Partners [0.03%]
性欲的产生并不特定于某一位伴侣：证据表明对固定伴侣的渴望和对替代伴侣的渴望之间存在正向关系
Sierra D Peters,Jon K Maner,Andrea L Meltzer
Sierra D Peters
One longitudinal study of married couples and one experiment tested the hypothesis that the experience of sexual desire for an alternative sexual partner might heighten feelings of desire for one's long-term romantic partner, and conversely...
Roger Myerson
Roger Myerson
We study game-theoretic models of human evolution to analyze fundamentals of human nature. Rival-claimants games represent common situations in which animals can avoid conflict over valuable resources by mutually recognizing asymmetric clai...
Hadza Landscape Burning [0.03%]
哈扎人的景观放火
Jacob A Harris,Mariamu Anyawire,Audax Mabulla et al.
Jacob A Harris et al.
We present the first published ethnographic description of landscape burning by Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania and identify environmental, social, and cultural influences on Hadza landscape burning, thereby broadening the ethno...
Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome [0.03%]
发育失败所致的死亡？对婴儿猝死综合征的一种进化发展理论
Herbert Renz-Polster,Peter S Blair,Helen L Ball et al.
Herbert Renz-Polster et al.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been mainly described from a risk perspective, with a focus on endogenous, exogenous, and temporal risk factors that can interact to facilitate lethal outcomes. Here we discuss the limitations that th...
Human Male Body Size Predicts Increased Knockout Power, Which Is Accurately Tracked by Conspecific Judgments of Male Dominance [0.03%]
人类体型大小预示击打力度的增加，并且同等物种对男性支配性的判断能够准确追踪到这一点
Neil R Caton,Lachlan M Brown,Amy A Z Zhao et al.
Neil R Caton et al.
Humans have undergone a long evolutionary history of violent agonistic exchanges, which would have placed selective pressures on greater body size and the psychophysical systems that detect them. The present work showed that greater body si...
The Cultural Evolution of Games of Chance : A Historical Investigation of Chinese Gambling [0.03%]
博弈游戏的文化演变：关于华人赌博的历史考察
Ze Hong
Ze Hong
Chance-based gambling has been a recurrent cultural activity throughout history and across many diverse human societies. In this paper, I combine quantitative and qualitative data and present a cultural evolutionary framework to explain why...
Racial and Temporal Differences in Fertility-Education Trade-Offs Reveal the Effect of Economic Opportunities on Optimum Family Size in the United States [0.03%]
种族和时间上生育与教育权衡差异揭示了经济机会对美国最优家庭规模的影响
Sally Li
Sally Li
Contemporary trends in low fertility can in part be explained by increasing incentives to invest in offspring's embodied capital over offspring quantity in environments where education is a salient source of social mobility. However, studie...
Ronald J Planer,Kim Sterelny
Ronald J Planer
In many traditional, small-scale societies, death and other misfortunes are commonly explained as a result of others' malign occult agency. Here, we call this family of epistemic tendencies "the agential view of misfortune." After reviewing...