Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2022 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ES/J023485/1) | Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K008625/1)

Authors: E. Reindl | C. Tennie | I. A. Apperly | Z. Lugosi | S. R. Beck

Differential effects of resource scarcity and pathogen prevalence on heterosexual women's facial masculinity preferences

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Grantová Agentura České Republiky (GA18-10298S)

Authors: S. Adil Saribay | Petr Tureček | Rüzgar Paluch | Karel Kleisner

Learner-driven innovation in the stone tool technology of earlyHomo sapiens

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2020 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Jayne Wilkins

Why cultural distance can promote – or impede – group-beneficial outcomes

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2024 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Bret Alexander Beheim | Adrian Viliami Bell

Measuring perceived fitness interdependence between humans and non-humans

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2024 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Katie Lee | Darragh Hare | Bernd Blossey

Specialised minds: extending adaptive explanations of personality to the evolution of psychopathology

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2022 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by University of Zurich Forschungskredit (FK-21-062)

Authors: Adam D. Hunt | Adrian V. Jaeggi

Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2024 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Matthias Schief | Sonja Vogt | Elena Churilova | Charles Efferson

Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2023 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Mason Youngblood | Helena Miton | Olivier Morin

How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality: causal evidence at the Swiss language border

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 12 April 2024 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (408040_210074) | Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Grant Nr. 100018_185417)

Authors: Lisa Faessler | Rafael Lalive | Charles Efferson

No good deed goes unpunished: the social costs of prosocial behaviour

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Royal Society (URF to NR) | Leverhulme Trust (Philip Leverhulme Prize to NR)

Authors: Nichola J. Raihani | Eleanor A. Power

Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2016-435)

Authors: Richard E.W. Berl | Alarna N. Samarasinghe | Seán G. Roberts | Fiona M. Jordan | Michael C. Gavin

Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Paul Seabright | Jonathan Stieglitz | Karine Van der Straeten

Correlates of conflict resolution across cultures

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-17-EURE-0010) | National Science Foundation (1628509)

Authors: Zachary H. Garfield

Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Aaron D. Lightner | Cynthiann Heckelsmiller | Edward H. Hagen

No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2020 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Sam Passmore | Fiona M. Jordan

Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2020 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Sheina Lew-Levy | Annemieke Milks | Noa Lavi | Sarah M. Pope | David E. Friesem

Psychosocial and energetic factors on human female pubertal timing: a systematized review

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2022 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Delaney J. Glass | Joy T. Geerkens | Melanie A. Martin

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2023 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Theiss Bendixen | Aaron D. Lightner | Coren Apicella | Quentin Atkinson | Alexander Bolyanatz | Emma Cohen | Carla Handley | Joseph Henrich | Eva Kundtová Klocová | Carolyn Lesorogol | Sarah Mathew | Rita A. McNamara | Cristina Moya | Ara Norenzayan | Caitlyn Placek | Montserrat Soler | Tom Vardy | Jonathan Weigel | Aiyana K. Willard | Dimitris Xygalatas | Martin Lang | Benjamin Grant Purzycki

Habitat selection and human aesthetic responses to flowers

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2021 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Authors: Martin Hůla | Jaroslav Flegr

The shape of lipsmacking: socio-emotional regulation in bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 2023 in Evolutionary Human Sciences

Research funded by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2019/15197-0)

Authors: Natalia Albuquerque | Carine Savalli | Marina Belli | Ana Clara Varella | Beatriz Felício | Juliana França | Patrícia Izar