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  1. Cultural and reproductive success in industrial societies: Testing the relationship at the proximate and ultimate levels.Daniel Pérusse - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):267-283.
    In most social species, position in the male social hierarchy and reproductive success are positively correlated; in humans, however, this relationship is less clear, with studies of traditional societies yielding mixed results. In the most economically advanced human populations, the adaptiveness of status vanishes altogether; social status and fertility are uncorrelated. These findings have been interpreted to suggest that evolutionary principles may not be appropriate for the explanation of human behavior, especially in modern environments. The present study tests the adaptiveness (...)
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  • How did morality evolve?William Irons - 1991 - Zygon 26 (1):49-89.
    This paper presents and criticizes. Alexander's evolutionary theory of morality (1987). Earlier research, on which Alexander's theory is based, is also reviewed. The propensity to create moral systems evolved because it allowed ancestral humans to limit conflict within cooperating groups and thus form larger groups, which were advantageous because of intense between-group competition. Alexander sees moral codes as contractual, and the primary criticism of his theory is that moral codes are not completely contractual but also coercive. Ways of evaluating Alexander's (...)
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  • Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk.Bruce J. Ellis, Aurelio José Figueredo, Barbara H. Brumbach & Gabriel L. Schlomer - 2009 - Human Nature 20 (2):204-268.
    The current paper synthesizes theory and data from the field of life history (LH) evolution to advance a new developmental theory of variation in human LH strategies. The theory posits that clusters of correlated LH traits (e.g., timing of puberty, age at sexual debut and first birth, parental investment strategies) lie on a slow-to-fast continuum; that harshness (externally caused levels of morbidity-mortality) and unpredictability (spatial-temporal variation in harshness) are the most fundamental environmental influences on the evolution and development of LH (...)
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  • Resources, reproduction, and mate competition in human populations.Mark V. Flinn - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):305-307.
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  • The evolution of the critical period for language acquisition.James R. Hurford - 1991 - Cognition 40 (3):159-201.
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  • Grandparental investment: Past, present, and future.David A. Coall & Ralph Hertwig - 2010 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (1):1-19.
    What motivates grandparents to their altruism? We review answers from evolutionary theory, sociology, and economics. Sometimes in direct conflict with each other, these accounts of grandparental investment exist side-by-side, with little or no theoretical integration. They all account for some of the data, and none account for all of it. We call for a more comprehensive theoretical framework of grandparental investment that addresses its proximate and ultimate causes, and its variability due to lineage, values, norms, institutions (e.g., inheritance laws), and (...)
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  • Does observed fertility maximize fitness among New Mexican men?Hillard S. Kaplan, Jane B. Lancaster, Sara E. Johnson & John A. Bock - 1995 - Human Nature 6 (4):325-360.
    Our objective is to test an optimality model of human fertility that specifies the behavioral requirements for fitness maximization in order (a) to determine whether current behavior does maximize fitness and, if not, (b) to use the specific nature of the behavioral deviations from fitness maximization towards the development of models of evolved proximate mechanisms that may have maximized fitness in the past but lead to deviations under present conditions. To test the model we use data from a representative sample (...)
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  • Aggression and violence around the world: A model of CLimate, Aggression, and Self-control in Humans.Paul A. M. Van Lange, Maria I. Rinderu & Brad J. Bushman - 2017 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40:1-63.
    Worldwide there are substantial differences within and between countries in aggression and violence. Although there are various exceptions, a general rule is that aggression and violence increase as one moves closer to the equator, which suggests the important role of climate differences. While this pattern is robust, theoretical explanations for these large differences in aggression and violence within countries and around the world are lacking. Most extant explanations focus on the influence of average temperature as a factor that triggers aggression, (...)
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  • The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II.Gert Stulp, Rebecca Sear, Susan B. Schaffnit, Melinda C. Mills & Louise Barrett - 2016 - Human Nature 27 (4):445-470.
    Studies of the association between wealth and fertility in industrial populations have a rich history in the evolutionary literature, and they have been used to argue both for and against a behavioral ecological approach to explaining human variability. We consider that there are strong arguments in favor of measuring fertility (and proxies thereof) in industrial populations, not least because of the wide availability of large-scale secondary databases. Such data sources bring challenges as well as advantages, however. The purpose of this (...)
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  • The evolution of magnanimity.James L. Boone - 1998 - Human Nature 9 (1):1-21.
    Conspicuous consumption associated with status reinforcement behavior can be explained in terms of costly signaling, or strategic handicap theory, first articulated by Zahavi and later formalized by Grafen. A theory is introduced which suggests that the evolutionary raison d’être of status reinforcement behavior lies not only in its effects on lifetime reproductive success, but in its positive effects on the probability of survival through infrequent, unpredictable demographic bottlenecks. Under some circumstances, such “wasteful” displays may take the form of displays of (...)
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  • Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/’Hoansi.Patricia Draper & Raymond Hames - 2000 - Human Nature 11 (2):117-156.
    Birth order has been examined over a wide variety of dimensions in the context of modern populations. A consistent message has been that it is better to be born first. The analysis of birth order in this paper is different in several ways from other investigations into birth order effects. First, we examine the effect of birth order in an egalitarian, small-scale, kin-based society, which has not been done before. Second, we use a different outcome measure, fertility, rather than outcome (...)
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  • Why Do People Become Modern? A Darwinian Explanation.Peter J. Richerson - unknown
    MOST MODERN PEOPLE think it is obvious why people become modern. For them, a more interesting and important puzzle is why some people fail to embrace modern ideas. Why do people in traditional societies often seem unable or unwilling to aspire to a better life for themselves and their children? Why do they fail to see the benefi ts of education, equal rights, democracy, and a rational approach to decisionmaking? What is the glue that makes them adhere to superstition, religion, (...)
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  • Evolutionary Psychology of Eating Disorders: An Explorative Study in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.Johanna Nettersheim, Gabriele Gerlach, Stephan Herpertz, Riadh Abed, Aurelio J. Figueredo & Martin Brüne - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Modernizing Evolutionary Anthropology.Siobhán M. Mattison & Rebecca Sear - 2016 - Human Nature 27 (4):335-350.
    Evolutionary anthropology has traditionally focused on the study of small-scale, largely self-sufficient societies. The increasing rarity of these societies underscores the importance of such research yet also suggests the need to understand the processes by which such societies are being lost—what we call “modernization”—and the effects of these processes on human behavior and biology. In this article, we discuss recent efforts by evolutionary anthropologists to incorporate modernization into their research and the challenges and rewards that follow. Advantages include that these (...)
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  • Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument.Shanyang Zhao - 2022 - European Journal of Social Theory 25 (3):386-402.
    Natural selection is the main mechanism that drives the evolution of species, including human societies. Under natural selection, human species responds through genetic and cultural adaptations to internal and external selection pressures for survival and reproductive success. However, this theory is ineffective in explaining human societal evolution in the Holocene and a cultural selection argument has been made to remedy the theory. The present article provides a critique of the cultural selection argument and proposes an alternative conception that treats human (...)
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  • Do high-status people really have fewer children?Jason Weeden, Michael J. Abrams, Melanie C. Green & John Sabini - 2006 - Human Nature 17 (4):377-392.
    Evolutionary discussions regarding the relationship between social status and fertility in the contemporary U.S. typically claim that the relationship is either negative or absent entirely. The published data on recent generations of Americans upon which such statements rest, however, are solid with respect to women but sparse and equivocal for men. In the current study, we investigate education and income in relation to age at first child, childlessness, and number of children for men and women in two samples—one of the (...)
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  • An Evolutionary Account of Status, Power, and Career in Modern Societies.Martin Fieder & Susanne Huber - 2012 - Human Nature 23 (2):191-207.
    We 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 4,491 US men and 5,326 US women, we find that holding a supervisory position or being in charge of hiring and firing is positively associated with offspring count in men but not in women. The positive effect in men is attributable mainly to the higher proportion of (...)
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  • The evolution of female sexuality and mate selection in humans.Meredith F. Small - 1992 - Human Nature 3 (2):133-156.
    Understanding female sexuality and mate choice is central to evolutionary scenarios of human social systems. Studies of female sexuality conducted by sex researchers in the United States since 1938 indicate that human females in general are concerned with their sexual well-being and are capable of sexual response parallel to that of males. Across cultures in general and in western societies in particular, females engage in extramarital affairs regularly, regardless of punishment by males or social disapproval. Families are usually concerned with (...)
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  • Prestige, possessions, and progeny.Michael J. Casimir & Aparna Rao - 1995 - Human Nature 6 (3):241-272.
    It has been suggested by some that the acquisition of symbolic capital in terms of honor, prestige, and power translates into an accumulation of material capital in terms of tangible belongings, and that on the basis of these goods high reproductive success may be achieved. However, data on completed fertility rates over more than one generation in so-called traditional societies have been rare. Ethnographic and demographic data presented here on the pastoral Bakkarwal of northern India largely corroborate the hypothesis concerning (...)
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  • Why some Apes became Humans, Competition, consciousness, and culture.Pouwel Slurink - 2002 - Dissertation, Radboud University
    Chapter 1 (To know in order to survive) & Chapter 2 (A critique of evolved reason) explain human knowledge and its limits from an evolutionary point of view. Chapter 3 (Captured in our Cockpits) explains the evolution of consciousness, using value driven decision theory. Chapter 4-6 (Chapter 4 Sociobiology, Chapter 5 Culture: the Human Arena), Chapter 6, Genes, Memes, and the Environment) show that to understand culture you have at least to deal with 4 levels: genes, brains, the environment, culture. (...)
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  • Sex Differences in the Association of Family and Personal Income and Wealth with Fertility in the United States.Rosemary L. Hopcroft - 2019 - Human Nature 30 (4):477-495.
    Evolutionary theory predicts that social status and fertility will be positively related. It also predicts that the relationship between status and fertility will differ for men and women. This is particularly likely in modern societies given evidence that females face greater trade-offs between status and resource acquisition and fertility than males. This paper tests these hypotheses using newly released data from the 2014 wave of the Survey of Income and Program Participation by the US Census, which has the first complete (...)
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  • Do these sociobiologists have an answer for everything?Douglas T. Kenrick - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):299-300.
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  • Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences.Rebecca Sear, David W. Lawson & Thomas E. Dickins - unknown
    Over the last three decades, the application of evolutionary theory to the human sciences has shown remarkable growth. This growth has also been characterised by a ‘splitting’ process, with the emergence of distinct sub-disciplines, most notably: Human Behavioural Ecology (HBE), Evolutionary Psychology (EP) and studies of Cultural Evolution (CE). Multiple applications of evolutionary ideas to the human sciences are undoubtedly a good thing, demonstrating the usefulness of this approach to human affairs. Nevertheless, this fracture has been associated with considerable tension, (...)
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  • Where are the bastards' daddies?Laura Betzig - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):284-285.
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  • Monogamy, contraception and the cultural and reproductive success hypothesis.William Irons - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):295-296.
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  • How did the Krummhörn elite males achieve above-average reproductive success?Heike Klindworth & Eckart Voland - 1995 - Human Nature 6 (3):221-240.
    The wealthy elite males of nineteenth-century Krummhörn (Ostfriesland, Germany) achieved an above-average reproductive success. Membership in the elite class was determined from a list of the 300 richest men in the Ostfriesland district compiled by authorities in 1812. The main components establishing the link between cultural success and reproductive success aredifferences in the number of offspring owing to differences both in time spent in fecund marriage (mating success) and in rate of reproduction;differences in the probabilities of one’s adult offspring marrying (...)
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  • Men in the demographic transition.Bobbi S. Low - 1994 - Human Nature 5 (3):223-253.
    Women’s fertility is the focus of most demographic analyses, for in most mammals, and in many preindustrial societies, variance in male fertility, while an interesting biological phenomenon, is irrelevant. Yet in monogamous societies, the reproductive ecology of men, as well as that of women, is important is creating reproductive patterns. In nineteenth-century Sweden, the focus of this study, male reproductive ecology responded to resource conditions: richer men had more children than poorer men. Men’s fertility also interacted with local and historical (...)
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  • Scientism, sexism and sociobiology: One more link in the chain.John Dupré - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):292-292.
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  • Racial and Temporal Differences in Fertility–Education Trade-Offs Reveal the Effect of Economic Opportunities on Optimum Family Size in the United States.Sally Li - 2024 - Human Nature 35 (2):134-152.
    Contemporary trends in low fertility can in part be explained by increasing incentives to invest in offspring’s embodied capital over offspring quantity in environments where education is a salient source of social mobility. However, studies on this subject have often neglected to empirically examine heterogeneity, missing out on the opportunity to investigate how this relationship is impacted when individuals are excluded from meaningful participation in economic spheres. Using General Social Survey data from the United States, I examine changes in the (...)
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  • Exadaptations.John Alcock - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):283-284.
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  • Converting cultural success into mating failure by aging.Fred L. Bookstein - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):285-286.
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  • Attractive single gatherer wishes to meet rich, powerful hunter for good time under mongongo tree.Gwen J. Broude - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):287-289.
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  • Obstacles to expanding human evolutionary theory.Linnda R. Caporael - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):750-753.
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  • The status/reproduction correlation: But what is the mechanism?Gregory Carey - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):289-289.
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  • Fitness and intelligence: The more concrete problem.Raymond B. Cattell - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):305-305.
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  • Beyond reproductive success differentials.Martin Daly - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):289-290.
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  • Human reproductive plasticity.Mildred Dickemann - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):290-291.
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  • On the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies.R. I. M. Dunbar - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):291-291.
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  • An explanatory mechanism that merits more attention.Nancy Eisenberg - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):749-749.
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  • Evolutionary psychology: Black box “mechanisms”?Mark V. Flinn - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):293-293.
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  • Some evidence on cultural and reproductive success in the United States.Norval D. Glenn - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):293-294.
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  • Pérusse is right.John Hartung - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):294-294.
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  • Are our reproductive choices affected by aspects of socioeconomic resources?Elizabeth M. Hill - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):294-295.
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  • The problem of resource accrual and reproduction in modern human populations remains an unsolved evolutionary puzzle.Hillard Kaplan - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):297-298.
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  • Social dominance attainment, testosterone, libido and reproductive success.Theodore D. Kemper - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):298-299.
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  • Toward an integrative framework of grandparental investment.David A. Coall & Ralph Hertwig - 2010 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (1):40-59.
    This response outlines more reasons why we need the integrative framework of grandparental investments and intergenerational transfers that we advocated in the target article. We discusses obstacles that stand in the way of such a framework and of a better understanding of the effects of grandparenting in the developed world. We highlight new research directions that have emerged from the commentaries, and we end by discussing some of the things in our target article about which we may have been wrong.
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  • Grandparental investment facilitates harmonization of work and family in employed parents: A lifespan psychological perspective.Christiane A. Hoppmann & Petra L. Klumb - 2010 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (1):27-28.
    The target article emphasizes the need to identify psychological mechanisms underlying grandparental investment, particularly in low-risk family contexts. We extend this approach by addressing the changing demands of balancing work and family in low-risk families. Taking a lifespan psychological perspective, we identify additional motivators and potential benefits of grandparental investment for grandparents themselves and for subsequent generations.
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  • Resources and reproduction: What hath the demographic transition wrought?Bobbi S. Low - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):300-300.
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  • Are the socially successful an intelligence cartel?Richard Machalek - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):307-308.
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  • Sociobiology or evolutionary psychology? The debate continues.Linda Mealey - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):300-301.
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