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- 1From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRecent research on the evolution of religion has focused on whether religion is an unselected by-product of evolutionary processes or if it is instead an adaptation by natural selection. Adaptive hypotheses for religion...
- 2From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe hypothesize that in modern societies the striving for high positions in the hierarchy of organizations is equivalent to the striving for status and power in historical and traditional societies. Analyzing a sample of...
- 3From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKeywords Primates * Primate intelligence * Social relationships * Social cognition People are notoriously reluctant to acknowledge their inner primate and the degree to which "evolutionary baggage" influences their...
- 4From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDifferences between men and women in the performance of tests designed to measure spatial abilities are explained by evolutionary psychologists in terms of adaptive design. The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Spatial Ability...
- 5From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCollective action, or the large-scale cooperation in the pursuit of public goods, has been suggested to have evolved through cultural group selection. Previous research suggests that the costly punishment of group...
- 6From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe prevalence of nonpaternity in human societies is difficult to establish. To obtain a current and fairly unbiased estimate of the nonpaternity rate in Germany, we analysed a dataset consisting of 971 children and...
- 7From: Human Nature. (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe have identified a sample of 53 societies outside of the classical Himalayan and Marquesean area that permit polyandrous unions. Our goal is to broadly describe the demographic, social, marital, and economic...