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Harpending, Henry C.; Rogers, Alan R. | Detecting positive selection from genome scans of linkage disequilibrium | Though a variety of linkage disequilibrium tests have recently been introduced to measure the signal of recent positive selection, the statistical properties of the various methods have not been directly compared. While most applications of these tests have suggested that positive selection has pl... | Genome scans; Linkage disequilibrium; Gene trees | 2010 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Population differences in quantitative characters as opposed to gene frequencies | Hypotheses about evolution can be tested by comparing genetics differences with those of quantitative characters. Such comparisons are one source of information concerning the forces that maintain variation among natural populations. | Genes; Evolution; Anthropology | 1986-05 |
| 103 |
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Cashdan, Elizabeth A. | How women compete | Men are more physically aggressive and more risk-prone than women, but are not necessarily more competitive. New data show the gender difference in competitiveness to be one of kind rather than degree, with women and men competing in different ways and, to some extent, over different objectives, but... | Gender differences, behavior; Competition; Aggression | 1999-06 |
| 104 |
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Cashdan, Elizabeth A. | Technological change and child behavior among the !Kung | How does change in one part of a social system affect other parts? This is the central question that must be answered in order to understand the process through which culture changes. This paper is about a small piece of the problem. It investigates how changes in subsistence economy affect child be... | Child behavior; Technological change; Foraging groups; Settled groups | 1988 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Human life histories: primate trade-offs, grandmothering socioecology, and the fossil record | Human life histories differ from those of other animals in several striking ways. Recently Smith and Tompkins (1995, p. 258) highlighted the combination of "slow" and "fast" features of human lives. Our period of juvenile dependency is unusually long, our age at first reproduction is late, and we h... | Meat; Maturity; Life Span | 2003 |
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McElreath, Richard | When natural selection favors imitation of parents | It is commonly assumed that parents are important sources of socially learned behavior and beliefs. However, the empirical evidence that parents are cultural models is ambiguous, and debates continue over their importance. A formal theory that examines the evolution of psychological tendencies to i... | Transmission; Evolution; Culture | 2008 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Stag hunts or rearing environments? | Tomasello et al. have made the case that shared intentionality distinguishes humans from our nearest living relatives. What accounts for the difference? The answer they offer is Stag Hunt choices faced by ancestral foragers. Noting problems with that answer, I urge attention to a promising alternati... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Codding, Brian | Alternative aboriginal economies: Martu livelihoods in the 21st century | In the western deserts of Australia, hunting and gathering endures as an important social and economic activity. That foraging persists within the boundaries of developed industrialized nation states may come as a surprise to those who evaluate foraging as less profitable than agricultural, wage or ... | Aboriginal economics; Aboriginal foraging | 2015 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Hunting and the evolution of egalitarian societies: lessons from the Hadza | Political hierarchies are common in human societies but absent among many mobile hunter-gatherers. So egalitarian social organizations have been attributed to limits that foraging imposes on wealth accumulation. But male-dominance hierarchies characterize all the great apes, our nearest relatives. ... | | 2000 |
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Introduction: origins and settlement of the indigenous populations of the Aleutian Archipelago | The series of papers in this special issue of Human Biology use an interdisciplinary approach to address regional questions and to integrate disparate Aleutian data into a broad, synthetic effort. The contributors leverage decades of data on Aleut origins, biogeography, and behavior through integrat... | | 2010 |
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Codding, Brian F. | External impacts on internal dynamics: Effects of paleoclimatic and demographic variability on acorn exploitation along the Central California coast | Research into human-environment interaction in California prehistory often focuses on either the internal dynamics of adaptive decisions or the external impacts of environmental change. While both processes were surely driving prehistoric variability, integrating these approaches is not altogether s... | Acorn exploitation; Prehistoric land use; Behavioral ecology | 2016 |
