Extensive discussion attends to the disadvantages of shifting from mobile hunter-gatherer subsistence  to sedentary living. Fewer studies have investigated

Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. The scope of t...

The American Journal of Human Biology publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles and timely reviews, and brief communications in human biology.

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Objectives Intestinal function is an important but often overlooked aspect of human biological variation, with the intestines serving as both a barrier against external pathogens/contaminants and th...

The University of Otago needs to develop a kava policy  Patrick Vakaoti  writes. Nothing about us, without us, is the idea that no policy should be...

Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte

Religious parents receive more alloparental aid in rural Bangladesh - Volume 8

The research being done at Baylor impacts lives on multiple levels. There are the people who benefit directly from the research itself -- the people served by improved water quality, or mental health ...

Abstract. Beliefs about gender roles are widely understood to be acquired via social learning. However, accounts of gender socialization remain disconnecte

Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation

Achieving gender equality requires the support of all genders, but efforts to engage men in women’s empowerment initiatives have been fraught with res…

Among humans, paternal investment has been shown to enhance both fertility and offspring survival. While psychological and ecological influences on human paternal investment are relatively well docume...

Receiving care from individuals other than one's mother (i.e., allomothering) is a universal aspect of raising children, but whether and how such care impacts children's health remains subject to deb...

Published in Religion, Brain & Behavior (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2024)

Researchers in the biological and behavioural sciences are increasingly conducting collaborative, multi-sited projects to address how phenomena vary across ecologies. These types of projects, however, pose additional workflow challenges beyond those ...

The objective of this special issue is to highlight the absence of religion and spirituality in the human biological enterprise. We have assembled a set of articles covering physiology, psychology, c...

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