Reply to Mohlenhoff et al.: Human behavioral ecology needs a rethink that niche-construction theory can provide. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 In their response to my recent PNAS article (1), Mohlenhoff et al. (2) embrace a view of optimal foraging theory (OFT) and its umbrella discipline, human behavioral ecology (HBE) grounded in standard evolutionary theory (SET).
Zeder MA.
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Married Too Young? The Behavioral Ecology of ‘Child Marriage’
Social Sciences, 2021 For girls and women, marriage under 18 years is commonplace in many low-income nations today and was culturally widespread historically. Global health campaigns refer to marriage below this threshold as ‘child marriage’ and increasingly aim for its ...
Susan B. Schaffnit, David W. Lawson
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Differential effects of human density, environmental health, and group size on urban coyote detection, boldness, and exploration [PDF]
Scientific ReportsComparative studies show that urban coyotes behave differently from rural counterparts. However, these studies often homogenize cities. Cities feature diverse pressures for wildlife, such as variation in human densities and environmental health, two ...
Cesar O. Estien +2 more
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Olfactory Inspection of Female Reproductive States in Chimpanzees
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In mammalian species, olfactory cues are important for within and between species communication. These cues can be part of multimodal signals indicating, for example, female fertility potentially perceived by male conspecifics.
Susann Jänig +11 more
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Behavioral Ethics Ecologies of Human-Artificial Intelligence Systems
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Historically, evolution of behaviors often took place in environments that changed little over millennia. By contrast, today, rapid changes to behaviors and environments come from the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and the infrastructures ...
Stephen Fox
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Human behavioral ecology and niche construction
Evolutionary Anthropology (print), 2021 We examine the relationship between niche construction theory (NCT) and human behavioral ecology (HBE), two branches of evolutionary science that are important sources of theory in archeology. We distinguish between formal models of niche construction as
Elspeth Ready, M. Price
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Animals, 2023 The study aimed to explore how limited human socialization affects the socio-cognitive abilities and interactions with unfamiliar individuals of a selected group of domesticated dogs and goats.
Alfredo Di Lucrezia +8 more
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Behavioral Ecology of the Family: Harnessing Theory to Better Understand Variation in Human Families
Social Sciences, 2021 Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to have, or whether to stay with a partner or stray are questions that continue ...
Paula Sheppard, Kristin Snopkowski
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Vertebrate DNA in Fecal Samples from Bonobos and Gorillas: Evidence for Meat Consumption or Artefact? [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Deciphering the behavioral repertoire of great apes is a challenge for several reasons. First, due to their elusive behavior in dense forest environments, great ape populations are often difficult to observe.
Eriksson, J +4 more
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Impact of paternal investment among women in Sandzak [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 An evolutionary model of facultative reproductive strategies explains much of women's life history strategy in terms of the absence or presence of their fathers and parental investment they made.
Čvorović Jelena
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