Lifelong religious celibacy has been linked to sibling competition over parental wealth. Here, the authors show that celibacy is linked to marriage patterns, and its prevalence among men and women is ...

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Mixing, migration, and racial determination: Flinders Petrie’s interwar lessons for defining Jewishness - Volume 8

A four-pillar framework for advancing racial and ethnic inclusion in the life sciences - Volume 8

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Cousin marriage, practiced by over 10% of the world’s population, restructures kinship networks by overlapping blood and affinal ties. Theory makes...

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For decades, researchers have asked whether the colour of an animal's eyes says anything about its temperament. The idea draws on the proposed domestication syndrome – a group of behavioural and physi...

Analogies evolve by increasing transmission fidelity in the communication of complex information - Volume 8

Effects of fundamental social motives on environmental variation of compliance during pandemics - Volume 8

Resources modify the associations between kin and fertility in historical Finland - Volume 8

Reciprocal exchanges across multilayered networks show an emerging patron–client system led by salaried households - Volume 8

Lead author of the study Kenji Itao told Newsweek what many governments may be overlooking about low birth rates.

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

Two universal pathways in demographic transition - Volume 8

Attention and improvement: social learning reveals two behavioural dimensions behind dog-human interactions - Volume 8

Gaze in context: non-human eyes can be more salient under ecologically relevant conditions - Volume 8

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The Cultural Ecology of Social Media

On the functional redundancy of alcohol tolerance in rice societies - Volume 8

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Many gender-biased practices don’t make evolutionary sense. So why do they happen?,,,European Commission

Adverse childhood experiences, age at menopause, and vasomotor symptoms among mid-life Latine adults in California - Volume 8

Comparing predictions of anger in conflict situations: Recalibrational Theory versus Dark Triad traits - Volume 8

A celebration of the end of England’s badger cull, despite the loss of nearly 250,000 animals, shot or trapped unnecessarily

Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students 'suffer no harm'.

Stop Ormiston College from cutting down the trees

An evolutionary approach to privacy and information-management psychology - Volume 8

The evolution of identity signals for co-ordination in diverse societies - Volume 8

Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter was taken from her after she was subjected to parental competence psychometric tests

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Evolutionary explanations for human behaviour are everywhere. They appear in academic research, across social media, and increasingly within online communities like the manosphere.

How does stochasticity in learning impact the accumulation of knowledge and the evolution of learning? - Volume 8

Social norms and group-bounded indirect reciprocity - Volume 8