Kevin N Lala,Gillian Brown,Kalyani Twyman et al.
Kevin N Lala et al.
Although virtually all academics who study human 'race' agree that it is a social construct, members of the general public still commonly regard 'race' as a biological property (i.e. they think that 'races' are genetically distinct). Even t...
Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández,Chiara Barbieri,Stephen C Jett et al.
Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández et al.
The blowgun is a weapon that employs the force of breath for expelling a projectile and has been traditionally used for hunting and (occasionally) war. The use of blowguns extends to ancient times and is advantageous in dense-forest areas o...
Evidence that cultural groups differ in their abilities to detect fake accents: a follow up [0.03%]
文化群体检测假口音能力差异的证据：一项后续研究
Jonathan R Goodman,Robert A Foley
Jonathan R Goodman
We recently reported that cultural group membership may be a predictor of the likelihood that an individual will detect a faked accent in a recording. Here, we present follow-up data to our original study using a larger data set comprised o...
Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia [0.03%]
伊比利亚南部人类母系和父系历史的进一步见解
Marina González-Barrio,Luis J Sánchez-Martínez,Rosario Calderón et al.
Marina González-Barrio et al.
Human genetic structure of Iberian populations has been thoroughly explored in the last decades. The internal diversity of the Iberian Peninsula becomes visible by the different phylogeographic origins of particular mitochondrial DNA and Y ...
Edgar Dubourg,Valentin Thouzeau,Quentin Borredon et al.
Edgar Dubourg et al.
We present a comprehensive analysis of the rise of fictions across human narratives, using large-scale datasets that collectively span over 65,000 works across various media (movies, literary works), cultures (over 30 countries, Western and...
Olympia L K Campbell,Maheen Pracha,Ruth Mace
Olympia L K Campbell
Concerns have been raised that an excess of men leads to societal violence, including violence against women, although recent evidence has challenged this view. One area that remains untested is honour killings, a type of femicide perpetrat...
Construct validity in cross-cultural, developmental research: challenges and strategies for improvement [0.03%]
跨文化与发展研究中的构建效度：挑战与改进策略
Nicole J Wen,Dorsa Amir,Jennifer M Clegg et al.
Nicole J Wen et al.
The recent expansion of cross-cultural research in the social sciences has led to increased discourse on methodological issues involved when studying culturally diverse populations. However, discussions have largely overlooked the challenge...
Kristin Snopkowski,Annemarie M Hasnain
Kristin Snopkowski
Survey results have shown that the traits women seek in a partner are different from the traits parents seek in a son-in-law. These differences have been attributed to parent-offspring conflict, where parents prefer mates for their offsprin...
Observational evidence that economic reciprocity pervades self-organized food co-operatives [0.03%]
经济互惠渗透自组织食品合作社的实证证据
Taylor Z Lange,Timothy M Waring
Taylor Z Lange
Evolutionary scientists argue that prosociality has been central to human ecological success. Theoretical models and behavioural experiments have found that prosociality, and cooperation in particular, is conditional and context dependent, ...
Breaking-up and breaking the norm: intergenerational divorce transmission among two ethnolinguistic groups [0.03%]
两族裔语言群的代际离婚传承及其世代更替规律差异性分析
Caroline Uggla
Caroline Uggla
Individuals who experience divorce in childhood are more likely to divorce themselves as adults. Notably, the magnitude of the intergenerational divorce transmission is stronger for groups among whom divorce is rare. This transmission may r...