Testing the expensive-tissue hypothesis' prediction of inter-tissue competition using causal modelling with latent variables [0.03%]
利用潜在变量因果模型检验昂贵组织假说对各组织间竞争的预测能力
Meghan Shirley Bezerra,Samuli Helle,Kiran K Seunarine et al.
Meghan Shirley Bezerra et al.
The expensive-tissue hypothesis (ETH) posited a brain-gut trade-off to explain how humans evolved large, costly brains. Versions of the ETH interrogating gut or other body tissues have been tested in non-human animals, but not humans. We co...
Coevolution of norm psychology and cooperation through exapted conformity [0.03%]
人类规范心理与合作的共进化:顺应性的预适应性功能促进了规范心理和合作的发展
Yuta Kido,Masanori Takezawa
Yuta Kido
People willingly follow norms and values, often incurring material costs. This behaviour supposedly stems from evolved norm psychology, contributing to large-scale cooperation among humans. It has been argued that cooperation is influenced ...
Kin selection as a modulator of human handedness: sex-specific, parental and parent-of-origin effects [0.03%]
亲选择调节人类利手性:性别特异、父母及母系/父系效应
Bing Dong,Silvia Paracchini,Andy Gardner
Bing Dong
The frequency of left-handedness in humans is ~10% worldwide and slightly higher in males than females. Twin and family studies estimate the heritability of human handedness at around 25%. The low but substantial frequency of left-handednes...
The floating duck syndrome: biased social learning leads to effort-reward imbalances [0.03%]
浮鸭综合症:偏颇的社会学习导致付出与回报失衡
Erol Akçay,Ryotaro Ohashi
Erol Akçay
An increasingly common phenomenon in modern work and school settings is individuals taking on too many tasks and spending effort without commensurate rewards. Such an imbalance of efforts and rewards leads to myriad negative consequences, s...
Eva Brandl,Heidi Colleran
Eva Brandl
Many institutions claim that bride price - where the groom's family transfers wealth to the bride's family at marriage - harms women. Owing to its long-term engagement with communities that practise bride price, ethnography is well placed t...
How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality: Causal evidence at the Swiss language border [0.03%]
文化如何影响生育和死亡相关的选择:瑞士语言边界上的因果证据
Lisa Faessler,Rafael Lalive,Charles Efferson
Lisa Faessler
Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ markedly in the same environment. Put differently, cultural evolutionary processes can in principle stabilise behavioural differ...
The role of mating effort and co-residence history in step-grandparental investment [0.03%]
择偶努力和同居历史在继祖父母投资中的作用
Jenni E Pettay,David A Coall,Mirkka Danielsbacka et al.
Jenni E Pettay et al.
The prevalence of divorce in both parental and grandparental generations has led to a rise in the number of children who now have families that include both biological and step-grandparents. Despite the thorough examination of biological gr...
Investigating the effects of social information on spite in an online game [0.03%]
探究社交信息在一个在线游戏中对恶意行为的影响
Robin Watson,Thomas J H Morgan,Rachel L Kendal et al.
Robin Watson et al.
While humans are highly cooperative, they can also behave spitefully. Yet spite remains understudied. Spite can be normatively driven and while previous experiments have found some evidence that cooperation and punishment may spread via soc...
Robert R Dunn,Kathryn R Kirby,Claire Bowern et al.
Robert R Dunn et al.
Globally, human house types are diverse, varying in shape, size, roof type, building materials, arrangement, decoration and many other features. Here we offer the first rigorous, global evaluation of the factors that influence the construct...
Formalising prestige bias: Differences between models with first-order and second-order cues [0.03%]
品位偏好的形式化:一级指标和二级指标模型之间的差异
Seiya Nakata,Akira Masumi,Genta Toya
Seiya Nakata
Knowledge and behaviour are transmitted from one individual to another through social learning and eventually disseminated across the population. People often learn useful behaviours socially through selective bias rather than random select...