Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement: productivity transitions in Neolithic northern China [0.03%]
小米、狗、猪与常平制度——中国北方新石器时代生产转型研究
Chris J Stevens,Yijie Zhuang,Dorian Q Fuller
Chris J Stevens
The transition to sedentary agricultural societies in northern China fuelled considerable demographic growth from 5000 to 2000 BC. In this article, we draw together archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological data and explore ...
Joseph A Bulbulia
Joseph A Bulbulia
Causal inference requires contrasting counterfactual states under specified interventions. Obtaining these contrasts from data depends on explicit assumptions and careful, multi-step workflows. Causal diagrams are crucial for clarifying the...
A gene-culture co-evolutionary perspective on the puzzle of human twinship [0.03%]
从基因-文化共进化角度解读人类多胞胎之谜
Augusto Dalla Ragione,Cody T Ross,Daniel Redhead
Augusto Dalla Ragione
Natural selection should favour litter sizes that optimise trade-offs between brood-size and offspring viability. Across the primate order, the modal litter size is one, suggesting a deep history of selection favouring minimal litters in pr...
Reputation-surveillance model of mate guarding: community size and religious veiling [0.03%]
名誉监视伴侣守护模型：社区规模与宗教面纱政策的影响
Farid Pazhoohi
Farid Pazhoohi
The mate guarding theory of conservative clothing posits that veiling reduces women's physical allure and sexual attractiveness, thereby diminishing men's attraction towards them and deterring potential rivals for a woman's partner. This th...
Methods in causal inference. Part 2: Interaction, mediation, and time-varying treatments [0.03%]
因果推断方法（二）：交互作用、中介效应及时间变动的处理因素
Joseph A Bulbulia
Joseph A Bulbulia
The analysis of 'moderation', 'interaction', 'mediation' and 'longitudinal growth' is widespread in the human sciences, yet subject to confusion. To clarify these concepts, it is essential to state causal estimands, which requires the speci...
Expanding the causal menu: An interventionist perspective on explaining human behavioural evolution [0.03%]
扩展因果菜单：解释人类行为进化的干预主义视角
Ronald J Planer,Ross Pain
Ronald J Planer
Theorists of human evolution are interested in understanding major shifts in human behavioural capacities (e.g. the creation of a novel technological industry, such as the Acheulean). This task faces empirical challenges arising both from t...
Infant-carrying mechanisms in a natural environment: the case of Qashqai nomad [0.03%]
游牧民族育儿方式的研究——以卡什伽里族为例
Zohreh Anvari,Gilles Berillon,Kristiaan D&#x;Août et al.
Zohreh Anvari et al.
Infant carrying and more generally load carrying may impact bipedal locomotion and thus the energy cost of the daily activities, in living people but also in our ancestors. In order to improve our knowledge of infant carrying strategies we ...
Methods in causal inference. Part 3: measurement error and external validity threats [0.03%]
因果推断方法. 第三部分: 测量误差和外部有效性的威胁
Joseph A Bulbulia
Joseph A Bulbulia
The human sciences should seek generalisations wherever possible. For ethical and scientific reasons, it is desirable to sample more broadly than 'Western, educated, industrialised, rich, and democratic' (WEIRD) societies. However, restrict...
Predictors and memory consequences of dating decisions in a dating app-analogue study [0.03%]
预测因素和记忆结果： dating app 类似研究中的择偶决定
Yikang Zhang,Pekka Santtila
Yikang Zhang
With the rise of dating apps, people have access to a vast pool of potential partners at their fingertips. The present study examined how various factors would predict an individual's dating decisions in a dating app-analogue study. Partici...
Salience of infectious diseases did not increase xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
传染病的显著性并未在COVID-19大流行期间增加排外心理
Lei Fan,Joshua M Tybur,Paul A M Van Lange
Lei Fan
Multiple proposals suggest that xenophobia increases when infectious disease threats are salient. The current longitudinal study tested this hypothesis by examining whether and how anti-immigrant sentiments varied in the Netherlands across ...