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Testing evolutionary theories of human cooperation via meta-analysis of microfinance repayment. 通过小额信贷还款的元分析测试人类合作的进化理论。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-06 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10047

Dugald Foster, Erik Postma, Shakti Lamba, Alex Mesoudi

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Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA. 探索历史上的母系：来自古代DNA的见解。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-06 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10046

Eleni Seferidou, Gözde Atağ

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Social norms and group-bounded indirect reciprocity. 社会规范与群体间接互惠。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-03-31 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10045

Wakaba Tateishi, Hirotaka Imada

{"title":"Social norms and group-bounded indirect reciprocity.","authors":"Wakaba Tateishi, Hirotaka Imada","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2026.10045","url":null,"abstract":"Indirect reciprocity is a reputation-based mechanism proposed to explain the evolution of human cooperation. Theoretical models demonstrated that the use of both first-order information (i.e., whether an evaluation target cooperated) and second-order information (i.e., the reputation of an interaction partner of the evaluation target) is critical for the evolution of cooperation. However, empirical findings on the use of second-order information have been mixed. Drawing upon the literature on group-bounded indirect reciprocity, we tested the hypothesis that individuals would be more sensitive to second-order information when evaluating in-group interactions, compared to when evaluating out-group interactions. We conducted a preregistered online experiment (N = 604), where we independently manipulated group membership (in-group vs. out-group), target behaviour (cooperation vs. defection), and recipient reputation (good vs. bad). We found that donors who defected against good recipients were rated more negatively than those who defected against bad recipients, indicating the use of second-order information. Partly consistently with our hypothesis, when individuals evaluated coopering donors, second-order information influenced reputation for in-group donor-recipient interactions more than for out-group donor-recipient interactions. Nevertheless, individuals readily used second-order information, whether or not they evaluated in-group or out-group donor-recipient interactions.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13122392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Target trial emulation shows that supported causal effects of religious attendance on well-being are selective. 目标试验模拟表明，参加宗教活动对幸福感的支持因果效应是选择性的。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-03-25 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10043

Joseph A Bulbulia, Don E Davis, Crystal Park, Kenneth G Rice, Geoffrey Troughton, Daryl R Van Tongeren, Chris G Sibley

{"title":"Target trial emulation shows that supported causal effects of religious attendance on well-being are selective.","authors":"Joseph A Bulbulia, Don E Davis, Crystal Park, Kenneth G Rice, Geoffrey Troughton, Daryl R Van Tongeren, Chris G Sibley","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2026.10043","url":null,"abstract":"Religious service attendance is associated with better well-being, but observational associations do not establish causation. We analyse six annual waves of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study () to estimate causal effects of monthly attendance on 24 well-being indicators using target trial emulation. Deterministic 'make everyone attend' contrasts fail positivity: only 2-3% of non-attenders initiate attendance per year. We therefore estimate supported stochastic interventions () among baseline non-attenders () using a sequentially doubly robust estimator with cross-validated machine learning. Effects are selective: small gains appear in meaning and purpose, forgiveness, and sexual satisfaction, with little movement in somatic health, psychological distress, social belonging, or perceived social support. A comparison exposure (+1 hour per week socialising with others) does not reproduce the pattern. We interpret the selective pattern through a prominent cooperative account of religion: gains concentrate in coordination-relevant domains rather than in direct health pathways.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13122395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-reported social media use does not affect cross-cultural consensus in first impressions. 自我报告的社交媒体使用不影响第一印象的跨文化共识。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-03-24 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10042

Vojtěch Fiala, Slawomir Wacewicz, Zuzana Štěrbová, Ondřej Pavlovič, Juan David Leongómez, Andrés Castellanos-Chacón, Selahattin Adil Saribay, Karel Kleisner, Petr Tureček

{"title":"Self-reported social media use does not affect cross-cultural consensus in first impressions.","authors":"Vojtěch Fiala, Slawomir Wacewicz, Zuzana Štěrbová, Ondřej Pavlovič, Juan David Leongómez, Andrés Castellanos-Chacón, Selahattin Adil Saribay, Karel Kleisner, Petr Tureček","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2026.10042","url":null,"abstract":"Research focusing on first impression formation based on facial stimuli lacks a conclusion on whether there is a cross-cultural agreement and how deeply it has proliferated across distant populations. Social media may play an important role in the level of cross-cultural agreement as they provide us with overwhelming numbers of visual stimuli, including faces. Sharing social media aesthetics, their users may utilise facial cues congruently. We asked participants from seven distant, ethnically variable countries from five continents to rate facial attractiveness, trustworthiness and dominance of a single ethnically invariant facial sample (N = 195, 106 women, M_Age = 23.23), also accounting for their self-reported social media use intensity and socioeconomic background. We expected the agreement between cultures to be better for participants who reported a higher intensity of social media use. Instead, we observed substantial cross-cultural agreement, especially for attractiveness and trustworthiness, regardless of the self-reported social media use intensity. However, the samples of participants from similar cultural backgrounds (same countries) agreed more. We also see substantial agreement in facial cue utilisation. In line with previous research, the distinctiveness of facial shape affects perceived attractiveness congruently across cultures. Despite the relatively small age range, age positively affects ascribed dominance.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112124/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Primate dental function and evolution: longitudinal 3D tooth wear in wild baboons. 灵长类动物牙齿功能和进化：野生狒狒纵向三维牙齿磨损。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-03-24 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10041

Ian Towle, Luca Fiorenza, Kristin L Krueger, Clifford J Jolly, Jane Phillips-Conroy

{"title":"Primate dental function and evolution: longitudinal 3D tooth wear in wild baboons.","authors":"Ian Towle, Luca Fiorenza, Kristin L Krueger, Clifford J Jolly, Jane Phillips-Conroy","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2026.10041","url":null,"abstract":"Tooth wear constrains feeding efficiency, life history, and survival in mammals, yet its progression in wild populations remains poorly understood. We use high-resolution 3D analysis to quantify occlusal tissue loss over a 3-year period in the upper premolars and molars (P3-M3; n = 70) of wild baboons (Papio). Our sample includes olive baboons (P. anubis) and naturally occurring olive-hamadryas hybrids (P. anubis × P. hamadryas) from Awash National Park, Ethiopia. We calculate mean values for tooth types, visualize tissue loss across occlusal surfaces, and compare individuals by age, sex, and hybrid status. Molars lost tissue faster than premolars (molars: 0.13 mm3/mm2/year; premolars: 0.08 mm3/mm2/year), with the bulk of wear shifting from lingual to buccal cusps in older individuals. The rate of tissue loss did not increase with age, despite greater dentine exposure. There was no clear difference in wear patterns relating to sex or hybrid status, although subtle sex-related differences in P3 wear patterns were observed. These findings demonstrate the adaptive significance of gradual tissue loss in preserving dental function and establish comparative baselines for interpreting wear patterns in extinct primates, where dental remains often provide the primary record of diet and behaviour.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars. 在猿（文化）战争中促成和平。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-03-06 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10039

Ammie K Kalan, Claudio Tennie

{"title":"Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars.","authors":"Ammie K Kalan, Claudio Tennie","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2026.10039","url":null,"abstract":"Mid-last century, controversy existed around the question whether non-human great apes have culture. To a large degree, this is no longer controversial - apes have their own cultures. However, there remains controversy around how to best study ape culture, given the varying and often dichotomised contributions from captive and field-ape research. Here, we present a historical summary of the ape culture wars since their inception and how this has evolved over time. We then focus on debates surrounding wild versus captive-ape research with an emphasis on culture, detailing major arguments arising from both research domains. Throughout, we critically deconstruct these arguments, illustrating the nuance behind these critiques, while highlighting their assumptions, overgeneralising statements and potential constraints. We further provide potential solutions to help alleviate the issues we describe, when possible. We also offer a metacritique of ape culture research for its scientific and political impact, irrespective of one's expertise. In closing, we summarise concrete recommendations for a richer and more holistic understanding of ape, and human, culture.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112122/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Women's mental health: current status and evolutionary perspectives. 妇女心理健康：现状和演变观点。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-02-19 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10032

Carol M Worthman

{"title":"Women's mental health: current status and evolutionary perspectives.","authors":"Carol M Worthman","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10032","url":null,"abstract":"Women's mental health is commonly regarded as worse than that of men across most cultures and countries, although the pronounced female disparity for affective disorders, particularly depression and anxiety, is reversed for other mental conditions such as addiction, alcoholism, or autism. Here we probe this puzzle within a life-history adaptationist framework, focusing on the high prevalence of mood disorders among women with the goal to evaluate their adaptive rather than pathological qualities. First, we characterize gender disparities in mental health, particularly mood disorders among women, and review their phenomenology. Then we survey known risks for mood disorder on cultural, ecological, experiential, and physical/physiological dimensions. Next we consider adaptationist explanations for depression, and map women's life history in non-industrial societies, plotting resources, demands, and selection pressures. Thence we turn to how life-course selection pressures and female adaptive responses to them operate and intersect, illustrated by an example of low birthweight effects. Affective disorders vary in phenotype and prevalence within and across societies and through time, arising from an array of context-sensitive cost-benefit trade-offs for females that operate from birth onwards. Available evidence suggests that the general preponderance of mood disorder among females is adaptive overall albeit via multiple pathways.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12936447/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147327402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transmission of human handedness: a reanalysis. 人类利手性的传播：再分析。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-02-16 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10038

Rony Karstadt, Chloe Shiff, Tomer Oron, Nadav Ben Nun, Yoav Ram

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Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature. 翻译保存？法国和荷兰中世纪文学的多样性。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2026-02-02 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2026.10036

Mike Kestemont, Folgert Karsdorp, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Remco Sleiderink, Anne Chao

{"title":"Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature.","authors":"Mike Kestemont, Folgert Karsdorp, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Remco Sleiderink, Anne Chao","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10036","DOIUrl":"10.1017/ehs.2026.10036","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical studies often have to work with incomplete samples, with scholars rarely accounting for under-registration: in cultural heritage e.g. the age-long loss of artefacts can yield an under-estimation of the original richness of assemblages. Recently, it has been argued that unseen species models from ecology can estimate the unobserved diversity in cultural collections. We report an extension on shared diversity, i.e. the number of types that are common to two assemblages. As a case study, we use stories in medieval French and Dutch (ca. 1150-1450), which were frequently shared. We apply an established estimator (Chao-shared) with a novel bootstrap procedure. The estimator suggests that the surviving data underestimate the original number of shared stories: for example, when its source is no longer extant, a translation can no longer be identified as such. Interestingly, there is less evidence for the total loss of shared stories: precisely because of the redundancy caused by inter-vernacular translation, shared stories were less likely to be lost in both languages simultaneously. These results go beyond previous studies in that they provide more insight into the composition of the unobserved share of cultural diversity (instead of its mere size).","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"8 ","pages":"e7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12964083/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147378812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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