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View article: Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict
Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict Open
View article: Measuring Gender Inequality and Market Integration Among Rural Communities: Introducing the GIMI Survey
Measuring Gender Inequality and Market Integration Among Rural Communities: Introducing the GIMI Survey Open
The Gender Inequality and Market Integration (GIMI) survey is a new methodological tool designed to assess economic and social transitions in rural and subsistence-based communities. Although anthropologists have long studied these populat…
View article: Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance
Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance Open
Nomadic pastoralists are systematically underrepresented in the planning of health services and frequently missed by health campaigns due to their mobility. Previous studies have developed novel geospatial methods to address these challeng…
View article: The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter Open
The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with sexist theories of human evolution, but wildly disparate use of the phrase has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this paper, we ask: what does Man the H…
View article: Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict
Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict Open
View article: Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter Open
Gendered divisions of labor are a feature of every known contemporary hunter-gatherer (forager) society. While gender roles are certainly flexible, and prominent and well-studied cases of female hunting do exist, it is more often men who h…
View article: Woman the Hunter? Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real
Woman the Hunter? Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real Open
Gendered divisions of labor are a feature of every known contemporary hunter-gatherer (forager) society. While gender roles are certainly flexible, and prominent and well-studied cases of female hunting do exist, it is more often men who h…
View article: Universal interpretations of vocal music
Universal interpretations of vocal music Open
Despite the variability of music across cultures, some types of human songs share acoustic characteristics. For example, dance songs tend to be loud and rhythmic, and lullabies tend to be quiet and melodious. Human perceptual sensitivity t…
View article: Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? The oasis theory of agricultural intensification
Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? The oasis theory of agricultural intensification Open
Despite the global spread of intensive agriculture, many populations retained foraging or mixed subsistence strategies until well into the twentieth century. Understanding why has been a longstanding puzzle. One explanation, called the mar…
View article: Myths About the Evolution of War: Apes, Foragers, and the Stories We Tell
Myths About the Evolution of War: Apes, Foragers, and the Stories We Tell Open
The role of warfare in human evolution is among the most contentious topics in the evolutionary sciences. The debate is especially heated because many assume that whether our early human ancestors were peaceful or warlike has important imp…
View article: Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Norm violations and punishments across human societies Open
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were corre…
View article: Universal interpretations of vocal music
Universal interpretations of vocal music Open
Despite the variability of music across cultures, some types of human songs share acoustic characteristics. For example, dance songs tend to be loud and rhythmic and lullabies tend to be quiet and melodious. Human perceptual sensitivity to…
View article: zhgarfield/hamarconflictdata: Initial release
zhgarfield/hamarconflictdata: Initial release Open
Initial release of the hamarconflictdata package.
View article: zhgarfield/hamarconflictdata: Initial release
zhgarfield/hamarconflictdata: Initial release Open
Initial release of the hamarconflictdata package.
View article: Inter-personal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society
Inter-personal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society Open
Human societies depend on the ability of their members to solve collective action problems, coordinate with others, and cooperate. In any social species, conflicts threaten group stability, but this threat may be more pronounced in humans …
View article: Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Norm violations and punishments across human societies Open
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesized to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were corre…
View article: Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures Open
View article: Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups Open
Humans often favour ingroup members over others, a bias that drives discrimination and intergroup conflicts. Hostile relations between groups and homogeneity within groups may affect such ingroup bias. In an experiment with members of thre…
View article: Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence Open
Intergroup violence is challenging to understand: why do individuals cooperate to harm members of other groups when they themselves may be killed or injured? Despite progress in understanding the evolutionary and proximate mechanisms that …
View article: Cultural invariance in musical communication (for CogSci 2022 Proceedings)
Cultural invariance in musical communication (for CogSci 2022 Proceedings) Open
Despite the variability of music worldwide, some types of human songs share basic acoustic characteristics. For example, dance songs tend to be loud and rhythmic, whereas lullabies tend to be quiet and melodious. Prior studies with western…
View article: Author’s response: Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality
Author’s response: Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality Open
We compare and contrast the 60 commentaries by 109 authors on the pair of target articles by Mehr et al. and ourselves. The commentators largely reject Mehr et al.’s fundamental definition of music and their attempts to refute 1) our socia…
View article: Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model Open
Many researchers assume that until 10-12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile, relatively egalitarian bands composed mostly of kin. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” informs evolutionary explanations of behavior and our understandin…
View article: Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding Open
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and ext…
View article: Acoustic regularities in infant-directed vocalizations across cultures
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed vocalizations across cultures Open
The forms of many species’ vocal signals are shaped by their functions 1–15 . In humans, a salient context of vocal signaling is infant care, as human infants are altricial 16, 17 . Humans often alter their vocalizations to produce “parent…
View article: Universality and diversity in human song
Universality and diversity in human song Open
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For…
View article: Making Pastoralists Count: Geospatial Methods for the Health Surveillance of Nomadic Populations
Making Pastoralists Count: Geospatial Methods for the Health Surveillance of Nomadic Populations Open
Nomadic pastoralists are among the world’s hardest-to-reach and least served populations. Pastoralist communities are difficult to capture in household surveys because of factors including their high degree of mobility over remote terrain,…
View article: Making Pastoralists Count: Geospatial Methods for the Health Surveillance of Nomadic Populations
Making Pastoralists Count: Geospatial Methods for the Health Surveillance of Nomadic Populations Open
Nomadic pastoralists are among the world’s hardest-to-reach and least-served populations. Pastoralist communities are difficult to capture in household surveys due to factors including their high degree of mobility over remote terrain, flu…
View article: Universality and diversity in human song
Universality and diversity in human song Open
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itse…
View article: Form and Function in Human Song
Form and Function in Human Song Open
View article: Self-Interest and the Design of Rules
Self-Interest and the Design of Rules Open