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Why Care: Complex Evolutionary History of Human Healthcare Networks
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 One of the striking features of human social complexity is that we provide care to sick and contagious individuals, rather than avoiding them. Care-giving is a powerful strategy of disease control in human populations today; however, we are not the only ...
Sharon E. Kessler, Sharon E. Kessler
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What made us “hunter-gatherers of words”
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 This paper makes three interconnected claims: (i) the “human condition” cannot be captured by evolutionary narratives that reduce it to a recent ‘cognitive modernity', nor by narratives that eliminates all cognitive differences between us and out closest
Cedric Boeckx +2 more
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Prosociality and a Sociosexual Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction in Humans
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Human same-sex sexual attraction (SSSA) has long been considered to be an evolutionary puzzle. The trait is clearly biological: it is widespread and has a strong additive genetic basis, but how SSSA has evolved remains a subject of debate.
Andrew B. Barron, Brian Hare
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Adult bonobos show no prosociality in both prosocial choice task and group service paradigm [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Previous studies reported contrasting conclusions concerning bonobo prosociality, which are likely due to differences in the experimental design, the social dynamics among subjects and characteristics of the subjects themselves.
Jonas Verspeek +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Domestication is an evolutionary process with an impact on plant reproduction. Many domesticated plants are self-compatible (i.e., they lack mechanisms to reject their own pollen), but few domesticated plants are fully or partially self-incompatible.
Lislie Solís-Montero +5 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Background and aim Human evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behaviour, and culture. One source of these changes has been hypothesised to be our self-domestication (that is, the development in humans of features commonly found in domesticated
Antonio Benítez-Burraco +4 more
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An etiology of human modernity
Anthropological Review, 2021 Following the refutation of the replacement hypothesis, which had proposed that a ‘superior’ hominin species arose in Africa and replaced all other humans existing at the time, the auto-domestication hypothesis remains the only viable explanation for the
Bednarik Robert G.
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Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals
Zoological Letters, 2023 Numerous hypotheses try to explain the unusual appearance of the human eye with its bright sclera and transparent conjunctiva and how it could have evolved from a dark-eyed phenotype, as is present in many non-human primates. Recently, it has been argued
Kai R. Caspar +2 more
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Brésil(s), 2021 Through the series of self-improvement books by Samuel Smiles and other normative texts that circulated between the middle and upper classes of São Paulo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we analyze the spread of a social discourse promoting ...
Pedro Beresin Schleder Ferreira
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Ansell’s mole-rats (Fukomys anselli) are sexually dimorphic subterranean rodents that live in families consisting of a single breeding pair and their late-dispersing non-breeding offspring.
Sabine Begall +2 more
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