Dogs functionally respond to and use emotional information from human expressions [0.03%]
狗能够对人类的表情作出反应并利用这些表情中的情感信息
Natalia Albuquerque,Briseida Resende
Natalia Albuquerque
Emotions are critical for humans, not only feeling and expressing them, but also reading the emotional expressions of others. For a long time, this ability was thought to be exclusive to people; however, there is now evidence that other ani...
Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures [0.03%]
诸神正在观看又怎样？跨文化视角下的道德主义超自然惩罚观
Theiss Bendixen,Aaron D Lightner,Coren Apicella et al.
Theiss Bendixen et al.
Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive and monitoring gods that care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to suggest that belief in supernatural...
Eva Brandl,Ruth Mace,Cecilia Heyes
Eva Brandl
Teaching is an important process of cultural transmission. Some have argued that human teaching is a cognitive instinct - a form of 'natural cognition' centred on mindreading, shaped by genetic evolution for the education of juveniles, and ...
Begoña Dobon,Federico Musciotto,Alex Mira et al.
Begoña Dobon et al.
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter-gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultura...
Fitness consequences of cousin marriage: a life-history assessment in two populations [0.03%]
近亲结婚的适应度后果及其生命史特征在两个群体中的评估
Arianna Dalzero,Cody T Ross,Dieter Lukas
Arianna Dalzero
Cousin marriage, a spousal union between close kin, occurs at high frequencies in many parts of the world. The rates of cousin marriage in humans are concordant with empirical studies that challenge the traditionally held view that reproduc...
The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh [0.03%]
孟加拉国马特实验室市场一体化对包办婚姻的影响
S B Schaffnit,A E Page,R Lynch et al.
S B Schaffnit et al.
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages. While arranging marriages is a major f...
Mason Youngblood,Helena Miton,Olivier Morin
Mason Youngblood
Cattle brands (ownership marks left on animals) are subject to forces influencing other graphic codes: the copying of constituent parts, pressure for distinctiveness and pressure for complexity. The historical record of cattle brands in som...
Zachary H Garfield,Erik J Ringen,William Buckner et al.
Zachary H Garfield et al.
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correl...
Why did doctrinal religions first appear in the Northern Subtropical Zone? [0.03%]
论教义宗教为何首先出现在北亚热带地区？
R I M Dunbar
R I M Dunbar
Doctrinal religions that involve recognised gods, more formal theologies, moral codes, dedicated religious spaces and professional priesthoods emerged in two phases during the Neolithic. Almost all of these appeared in a narrow latitudinal ...
Genomic insights into a tripartite ancestry in the Southern Ryukyu Islands [0.03%]
基因组学视角下的南琉球群岛的三方血统祖先洞察
Niall P Cooke,Valeria Mattiangeli,Lara M Cassidy et al.
Niall P Cooke et al.
A tripartite structure for the genetic origin of Japanese populations states that present-day populations are descended from three main ancestors: (1) the indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherers; (2) a Northeast Asian component that arrived durin...