The Evolution of Inclusive Folk-Biological Labels and the Cultural Maintenance of Meaning [0.03%]
包容性民俗生物学标签的演变与文化的维持意义
Ze Hong
Ze Hong
How is word meaning established, and how do individuals acquire it? What ensures the uniform understanding of word meaning in a linguistic community? In this paper I draw from cultural attraction theory and use folk biology as an example do...
Courtney Helfrecht,Samuel Jilo Dira
Courtney Helfrecht
Human ontogeny has been shaped through evolution, resulting in markers of physical, cognitive, and social development that are widely shared and often used to demarcate the lifespan. Yet, development is demonstrably biocultural and strongly...
Intergroup Cooperation in Shotgun Hunting Among BaYaka Foragers and Yambe Farmers from the Republic of the Congo [0.03%]
刚果共和国巴亚卡狩猎采集群与ямбе农人群体的散枪狩猎中的群际合作
Vidrige H Kandza,Haneul Jang,Francy Kiabiya Ntamboudila et al.
Vidrige H Kandza et al.
Whereas many evolutionary models emphasize within-group cooperation or between-group competition in explaining human large-scale cooperation, recent work highlights a critical role for intergroup cooperation in human adaptation. Here we inv...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Aleksey Nikolsky
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform music and how this ability might have evolved in our species. In...
The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers : Cross-Cultural Survey and Implications for Research on Prehistoric Weaponry [0.03%]
近现代觅食人群中的木棍和投掷棒的使用：跨文化调查及对史前武器研究的影响
Václav Hrnčíř
Václav Hrnčíř
There is a popular idea that archaic humans commonly used wooden clubs as their weapons. This is not based on archaeological finds, which are minimal from the Pleistocene, but rather on a few ethnographic analogies and the association of th...
Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin [0.03%]
雌二醇和孕酮与英国白人妇女和孟加拉国妇女婚姻状况及生育次数的关系
Gillian R Bentley,Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora,Michele C Freed et al.
Gillian R Bentley et al.
Recent studies in social endocrinology have explored the effects of social relationships on female reproductive steroid hormones-estradiol and progesterone-investigating whether they are suppressed in partnered and parous women. Results hav...
Hearing Prosocial Stories Increases Hadza Hunter-Gatherers' Generosity in an Economic Game [0.03%]
听乐于助人故事能增加哈扎猎人的亲社会行为
Kristopher M Smith,Ibrahim A Mabulla,Coren L Apicella
Kristopher M Smith
Folk stories featuring prosocial content are ubiquitous across cultures. One explanation for the ubiquity of such stories is that stories teach people about the local socioecology, including norms of prosociality, and stories featuring pros...
Social Isolation Affects the Mimicry Response in the Use of Smartphones : An Ethological Experiment during the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
社会隔离影响智能手机使用中的模仿反应——COVID-19大流行期间的一项行为学实验
Veronica Maglieri,Anna Zanoli,Dimitri Giunchi et al.
Veronica Maglieri et al.
Humans are social animals that rely on different ways to interact with each other. The COVID-19 pandemic strongly changed our communication strategies. Because of the importance of direct contact for our species, we predict that immediately...
Jade Butterworth,Samuel Pearson,William von Hippel
Jade Butterworth
Humans have a complex and dynamic mating system, and there is evidence that our modern sexual preferences stem from evolutionary pressures. In the current paper we explore male use of a dual mating strategy: simultaneously pursuing both a l...
The Cultural Evolution of Medical Technologies : A Model of Sequential Treatments in the Medical Setting [0.03%]
医学背景下序贯治疗的文化进化模型
Ze Hong
Ze Hong
When people get ill, they naturally want to restore health through medical interventions. Here I model a situation in which individuals can psychologically entertain multiple potential treatments at once: when illness occurs, individuals wo...