Sex ratios and gender norms: why both are needed to understand sexual conflict in humans [0.03%]
性别比与性别规范：理解人类性冲突的两个关键因素
Renée V Hagen,Brooke A Scelza
Renée V Hagen
Sexual conflict theory has been successfully applied to predict how in non-human animal populations, sex ratios can lead to conflicting reproductive interests of females and males and affect their bargaining positions in resolving such conf...
Sirio Lonati,Rafael Lalive,Charles Efferson
Sirio Lonati
Causal inference lies at the core of many scientific endeavours. Yet answering causal questions is challenging, especially when studying culture as a causal force. Against this backdrop, this paper reviews research designs and statistical t...
Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis [0.03%]
地理并不决定命运：对戴蒙德定向轴假说的定量检测
Angela M Chira,Russell D Gray,Carlos A Botero
Angela M Chira
Jared Diamond suggested that the unique East-West orientation of Eurasia facilitated the spread of cultural innovations and gave it substantial political, technological and military advantages over other continental regions. This controvers...
The world has gone mad [0.03%]
世界疯了
Ruth Mace
Ruth Mace
How intrasexual competitiveness shapes attitudes towards cosmetic surgery recipients [0.03%]
intrasexual竞争力如何塑造对整形手术接受者的看法
Sarah Bonell,Christoph Klebl,Khandis Blake et al.
Sarah Bonell et al.
Cosmetic surgery is extremely popular. Despite this, negative attitudes towards cosmetic surgery recipients prevail. Across two pre-registered studies, we examined whether intrasexual competitiveness explains these negative attitudes. Parti...
When he smiles: Attractiveness preferences for male faces expressing emotions [0.03%]
当他微笑时：对于表现情绪的男性面部的魅力偏好
Mariana L Carrito,Francisca Bismarck,Pedro Bem-Haja et al.
Mariana L Carrito et al.
The impact of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness has been controversial owing to contradictory results, particularly in studies on female preferences. Given that sexually dimorphic facial features, especially more masculine ones, ha...
Bonaventura Majolo,Laëtitia Maréchal,Ferenc Igali et al.
Bonaventura Majolo et al.
For cooperation to be beneficial, cooperators should be able to differentiate individuals who are willing to cooperate from free-riders. In the absence of kin or of familiar individuals, phenotypic similarity (e.g. in terms of language) can...
The use and misuse of evolutionary psychology in online manosphere communities: The case of female mating strategies [0.03%]
进化心理学在网上的男子气概圈子里的合理及不合理应用：以女性择偶策略为例分析
Louis Bachaud,Sarah E Johns
Louis Bachaud
While early evolutionary accounts of female sexuality insisted on coyness and monogamous tendencies, evidence from the field of primatology started challenging those assumptions in the 1970s. Decades later, there exist many competing and ov...
Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks [0.03%]
文化适应之路——累积文化和社会网络共同演化的作用机制分析
Marco Smolla,Erol Akçay
Marco Smolla
Humans have adapted to an immense array of environments by accumulating culturally transmitted knowledge and skills. Adaptive culture can accumulate either via more distinct cultural traits or via improvements of existing cultural traits. T...
Neighbours and relatives: accounting for spatial distribution when testing causal hypotheses in cultural evolution [0.03%]
邻里与亲缘：测试文化进化中的因果假说时考虑空间分布的影响
Lindell Bromham,Keaghan J Yaxley
Lindell Bromham
Many important and interesting hypotheses about cultural evolution are evaluated using cross-cultural correlations: if knowing one particular feature of a culture (e.g. environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity or parasite load...