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Hard paths, soft paths or no paths? Cross-cultural perceptions of water solutions [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2014 In this study, we examine how development status and water scarcity shape people's perceptions of "hard path" and "soft path" water solutions. Based on ethnographic research conducted in four semi-rural/peri-urban sites (in Bolivia, Fiji, New Zealand ...
A. Wutich +5 more
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The Evolution of Social Paradoxes
American Psychologist, 2023 Human behavior is often paradoxical. We show humility to prove we’re better than other people, we bravely defy social norms so that people will praise us, and we donate to charity anonymously to get credit for not caring about getting credit. Here, I argue that these and other social paradoxes have a common thread: they are all attempts to signal a ...
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The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals [PDF]
Science, 2013 The Only Flame in Town Unusual for mammals, humans are notably socially monogamous, with pair bonding sometimes lasting decades. Why? Lukas and Clutton-Brock (p. 526 ; see the Perspective by Kappeler ) examined data from over 2500 ...
D. Lukas, T. H. Clutton-Brock
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Human large-scale cooperation as a product of competition between cultural groups
Nature Communications, 2020 The authors here show that readiness to cooperate between individuals from different groups corresponds to the degree of cultural similarity between those groups.
Carla Handley, Sarah Mathew
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What associative learning in insects tells us about the evolution of learning and fixed behavior [PDF]
, 2015 Contemporary models for the evolution of learning suggest that environmental predictability plays a critical role in whether learning is expected to evolve in a particular species, a claim originally made over 50 years ago.
Hollis, Karen L. +6 more
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Applying evolutionary theory to human behaviour: past differences and current debates [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this paper is to provide non-specialist readers with an introduction to some current controversies surrounding the application of evolutionary theory to human behaviour at the intersection of biology, psychology and anthropology. We review the
Gillian R. Brown +4 more
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Rapid evolution of social learning [PDF]
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2009 AbstractCulture is widely thought to be beneficial when social learning is less costly than individual learning and thus may explain the enormous ecological success of humans. Rogers (1988. Does biology constrain culture. Am. Anthropol. 90: 819–831) contradicted this common view by showing that the evolution of social learning does not necessarily ...
Franz, M, Nunn, Charles
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The Evolution of Social and Economic Networks [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2002 We examine the dynamic formation and stochastic evolution of networks connecting individuals whose payoffs from an economic or social activity depends on the network structure in place. Over time, individuals form and sever links connecting themselves to other individuals based on the improvement the resulting network offers them relative to the ...
Matthew O. Jackson, Alison Watts
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Frequency of behavior witnessed and conformity in an everyday social context [PDF]
, 2014 Conformity is thought to be an important force in human evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cultural homogeneity within groups and cultural diversity between groups.
Sarah Brookes +25 more
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Dental Anthropology, 2006 Described are observations on Batak foods, tooth use, oral hygiene, and resulting wear and oral pathology in dental casts of 29 Batak ranging from 15 to 49 years of age. Commonly consumed foods are roughly 80 percent plant, and 20 percent animal products.
Christy G. Turner II, James F. Eder
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