Natural selection on reproductive timing varies by education in twentieth-century Estonia [0.03%]
二十世纪爱沙尼亚受教育程度不同的人在生殖时间上的自然选择有所不同
Richard Meitern,Peeter Hõrak
Richard Meitern
This register-based study investigates how natural selection acts on educational attainment and reproductive timing among Estonians born between 1925 and 1977. Women with primary education consistently achieved the highest reproductive succ...
Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour [0.03%]
TSIMANE儿童玩偶游戏的性别差异及成人劳动分工的塑造作用
Ava Moser,Michael D Gurven,Hillard Kaplan et al.
Ava Moser et al.
Sex-specific division of labour and the associated use of different subsistence techniques by males (e.g. hunting) and females (e.g. gathering) has played an important role in shaping human societies. Skills needed in adulthood are practice...
Art beyond cognition: reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission [0.03%]
超认知的艺术：通过社会关联性和文化传播重构尼安德特人的艺术
Larissa Straffon,Claudio Tennie
Larissa Straffon
Despite growing consensus that cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans were not as significant as once assumed, visual art remains disproportionately associated with Homo sapiens. This paper explores why that is. Rather...
Cultural evolution in the laboratory: evolution of cooperative altruistic punishing [0.03%]
实验中的文化演化：合作、利他和惩罚的进化
William M Baum,Peter J Richerson
William M Baum
Culture consists of practices - behaviour patterns - shared by members of a group. Some attempts to demonstrate evolution of cultural practices in the laboratory have shown evolution of material products, such as paper aeroplanes. Some atte...
Erratum: Breaking-up and breaking the norm: intergenerational divorce transmission among two ethnolinguistic groups - CORRIGENDUM [0.03%]
erratum：代际离婚的跨群体差异研究——对《打破常规：两个族群的代际离婚传承》一文的更正
Caroline Uggla,Jan Saarela
Caroline Uggla
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.9.]. © The Author(s) 2025.
Published Erratum
Evolutionary human sciences. 2025 Aug 28:7:e34. DOI:10.1017/ehs.2025.10004 2025
Estimated costs and benefits of participation in an extreme ritual in Mauritius [0.03%]
毛里求斯极端仪式参与的成本和效益估计
Eva Kundtová Klocová,Radek Kundt,Pushkar Varma Puryag et al.
Eva Kundtová Klocová et al.
Humans often participate in physically harmful and demanding rituals with no apparent material benefits. Although such behaviours have traditionally been explained using the lens of costly signalling theory, we question whether the canonica...
Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing [0.03%]
南部非洲班图语之前接触与迁徙的语言借用追溯
Anne-Maria Fehn,Bonny E Sands,Admire Phiri et al.
Anne-Maria Fehn et al.
Lexical borrowing may provide valuable clues about the sociohistorical context of language contact. Here we explore patterns of vocabulary transfer between languages from three families (Kx'a, Tuu, Khoe-Kwadi) comprising the linguistic unit...
Exploring factors for melodic diversification of folk songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago [0.03%]
琉球群岛民歌旋律多样化的因素探究
Yuri Nishikawa,Yasuo Ihara
Yuri Nishikawa
Cultural evolution of traditional music around the world has been the subject of recent quantitative investigations. Researchers have explored cultural diffusion of music as well as patterns of geographic variation that may result. By compa...
Wild bonobos experience unusually low bone resorption during early lactation relative to humans and other mammals [0.03%]
与人类和其他哺乳动物相比，野生倭黑猩猩在泌乳早期的骨质吸收异常偏低
Verena Behringer,Ruth Sonnweber,Barbara Fruth et al.
Verena Behringer et al.
In mammals, pregnancy and lactation are marked by maternal calcium stress and bone resorption, leading to reduced bone mineral density. In humans, these periods may partly explain the higher prevalence of osteoporosis in older women compare...
Bret Beheim
Bret Beheim
How does information infrastructure shape long-term cultural evolution? Using over four centuries of professional game records from the game of Go, this study explores how strategic dynamics in opening moves reflect historical shifts in the...