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A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere. 102个所谓的故事：探索大气圈的基础进化假说。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-10-09 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10020

Louis Bachaud, Macken Murphy, Sarah E Johns

{"title":"A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere.","authors":"Louis Bachaud, Macken Murphy, Sarah E Johns","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10020","url":null,"abstract":"The manosphere is a collection of online antifeminist men's groups whose ideologies often invoke Darwinian principles and evolutionary psychological research. In the present study, we reveal that the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or 'just-so stories', about men, women, and society. This is a unique phenomenon, where lay (i.e. non-expert) individuals creatively employ evolutionary reasoning to explain phenomena in accordance with their particular worldview. We thus assembled the first dataset of lay evolutionary just-so stories extracted from manosphere content (n = 102). Through qualitative analysis, we highlight the particularity of the manosphere's lay evolutionism. It is a collective bottom-up endeavour, which often leads to practical advice and exhibits a male gender bias. We further show that 83.3% of manosphere just-so stories pertain to sex differences and that only 36.3% explicitly signal that they are speculative. Given this evidence that lay communities collectively engage in evolutionary hypothesizing, we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole in terms of ethics and public image. Lastly, we issue a call for renewed discussion and reflection on evolutionary hypothesizing, a central yet somewhat neglected feature of evolutionary behavioural science.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e41"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12645320/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640693","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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Cultural evolution in the laboratory: evolution of cooperative altruistic punishing. 实验室中的文化进化：合作利他惩罚的进化。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-09-15 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10018

William M Baum, Peter J Richerson

{"title":"Cultural evolution in the laboratory: evolution of cooperative altruistic punishing.","authors":"William M Baum, Peter J Richerson","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10018","url":null,"abstract":"Culture consists of practices - behaviour patterns - shared by members of a group. Some attempts to demonstrate evolution of cultural practices in the laboratory have shown evolution of material products, such as paper aeroplanes. Some attempts have shown evolution of actual group behaviour. The present experiments demonstrated evolution of group coordination across generations in punishing defection in a public-goods game. Cost of punishing defection varied across replicates that consisted of series of groups (generations) of 10 undergraduates each. Each generation played the game anonymously for 10 rounds and could write messages to the other participants and punish defection every round. The effectiveness of punishment depended on the number of participants choosing to punish. In Experiment 1, cultural transmission from generation to generation consisted of written advice from one generation read aloud to the next generation. In Experiment 2, transmission from generation to generation consisted of having some participants return from the previous group. The cost of punishing varied across replicates: zero, one, two or five cents. In both experiments, the evolution of altruistic punishing was strongly dependent on the cost of punishing. The results add to plausibility of studying evolution of complex behaviour patterns like cooperation in the laboratory.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e32"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12645323/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640720","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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Natural selection on reproductive timing varies by education in twentieth-century Estonia. 在20世纪的爱沙尼亚，生殖时间的自然选择因教育而异。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-09-08 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10019

Richard Meitern, Peeter Hõrak

{"title":"Natural selection on reproductive timing varies by education in twentieth-century Estonia.","authors":"Richard Meitern, Peeter Hõrak","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10019","url":null,"abstract":"This register-based study investigates how natural selection acts on educational attainment and reproductive timing among Estonians born between 1925 and 1977. Women with primary education consistently achieved the highest reproductive success throughout the study period, whereas a positive educational gradient in reproduction emerged among men born since the 1950s, resulting in sexually antagonistic selection on educational attainment. Men with tertiary education had higher reproductive success than other men, despite initiating reproduction later. The lowest-educated women exhibited the strongest selection for early reproduction and the earliest start of reproduction throughout the study period. These women and the least-educated men also experienced the strongest selection for delayed reproductive cessation. Nonetheless, parents with primary education (particularly men) were typically the first to stop reproducing. Stabilizing selection for intermediate interbirth intervals also showed the strongest quadratic selection gradients among minimally educated parents of both sexes. At that, men with primary education had the fastest reproductive pace, whereas women in the same group had the slowest. Our study shows that selection on reproductive timing traits was consistently stronger among parents with lower educational attainment, and that variation in reproductive timing across educational strata does not consistently reflect the selective pressures acting on recent generations.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12645315/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640875","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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Erratum: Breaking-up and breaking the norm: intergenerational divorce transmission among two ethnolinguistic groups - CORRIGENDUM. 勘误：分手和打破规范：两种民族语言群体之间的代际离婚传播-勘误。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-28 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10004

Caroline Uggla, Jan Saarela

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A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language. 一个与地理和语言相关的全球吹枪数据库。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-27 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10005

Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Chiara Barbieri, Stephen C Jett, Jorge D Carrillo-Briceño, Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra

{"title":"A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language.","authors":"Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Chiara Barbieri, Stephen C Jett, Jorge D Carrillo-Briceño, Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10005","DOIUrl":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10005","url":null,"abstract":"The blowgun is a weapon that employs the force of breath for expelling a projectile and has been traditionally used for hunting and (occasionally) war. The use of blowguns extends to ancient times and is advantageous in dense-forest areas of South America and South East Asia. A classification system of blowgun types introduced in 1948 for South America is extended here. We assembled a global database that includes collection data and ethnographic accounts of blowgun types and other related features that were linked to available linguistic information. Our analyses show that geography explains the distribution of blowgun types to some degree, but within regions of the world it is possible to identify cultural connections. Darts are by far the most used projectiles and in combination with toxins (e.g. curare), these weapons reach their highest potential. A case study on the use of blowguns in groups of Austronesian language speakers shows clade-specific preferences across the tree. Our comprehensive database provides a general overview of large-scale patterns and suggests that incorporation of other related data (e.g. sights, mouthpieces, quivers) would enhance the understanding of fine-scale cultural patterns.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12516597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145293962","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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Opening strategies in the game of go from feudalism to superhuman AI. 从封建到超人AI的围棋开局策略。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-26 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10016

Bret Beheim

{"title":"Opening strategies in the game of go from feudalism to superhuman AI.","authors":"Bret Beheim","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10016","DOIUrl":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10016","url":null,"abstract":"How does information infrastructure shape long-term cultural evolution? Using over four centuries of professional game records from the game of Go, this study explores how strategic dynamics in opening moves reflect historical shifts in the 'infostructure' of skilled Go players. Drawing from recent work on how population size, AI, and information technology affect cultural evolution and innovation dynamics, I analyze over 118,000 games using measures of cultural diversity, divergence, and player network composition. The results show distinct eras of collective innovation and homogenization, including an early 20th-century explosion of novel opening strategies, a Cold-War-era die-off, and a recent increase in evolutionary tempo with the arrival of the internet and superhuman AI programmes like AlphaGo. Player population size shows an inverse-U relationship with opening move diversity, and a recent decline in strategic diversity has accompanied a shift in the player network, from many small subgroups to a few large ones. Surprisingly, the influence of AI has produced only a modest, short-lived disruption in the distribution of opening moves, suggesting convergence between humans and AI and incremental rather than revolutionary cultural change.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12516593/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145293965","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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Estimated costs and benefits of participation in an extreme ritual in Mauritius. 在毛里求斯参加一个极端仪式的估计成本和收益。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-22 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10017

Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt, Pushkar Varma Puryag, Martin Lang

{"title":"Estimated costs and benefits of participation in an extreme ritual in Mauritius.","authors":"Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt, Pushkar Varma Puryag, Martin Lang","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10017","url":null,"abstract":"Humans often participate in physically harmful and demanding rituals with no apparent material benefits. Although such behaviours have traditionally been explained using the lens of costly signalling theory, we question whether the canonical theory can be applied to the case of human cooperative signals and introduce a modification of this theory based on differential benefit estimation. We propose that along with cooperative benefits, committed members also believe in supernaturally induced benefits, which motivate participation in extreme rituals and stabilize their effects on cooperative assortment. Using Thaipusam Kavadi as a prototypical costly ritual, Tamil (ingroup) and Christian (outgroup) participants in Mauritius (N = 369) assessed the cost and benefits of Kavadi participation or hiking. We found that ingroup participants estimated material costs as larger than outgroups, physical costs as lower, and benefits as larger. These findings suggest that estimated costs may vary by modality and cultural expectations (e.g. Kavadi participants are not supposed to display pain), while supernaturally induced benefits were consistently reported as larger by ingroups compared to outgroups. We conclude that differential estimation of ritual benefits, not costs, are key to the persistence of extreme rituals and their function in the assortment of committed members, underscoring the role of differential estimation in the cognitive computation of signal utility.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12645328/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640712","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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The cultural macroevolution of arcade video games: innovation, collaboration, and collapse. 街机电子游戏的文化宏观演变：创新、合作和崩溃。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-20 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10015

Sergi Valverde, Blai Vidiella, Andrej Spiridonov, R Alexander Bentley

{"title":"The cultural macroevolution of arcade video games: innovation, collaboration, and collapse.","authors":"Sergi Valverde, Blai Vidiella, Andrej Spiridonov, R Alexander Bentley","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10015","url":null,"abstract":"Arcade video games evolved in a constrained design space, following patterns of diversification, stabilisation, and collapse that mirror macroevolutionary processes. Despite their historical significance and detailed digital records, arcade games remain underexplored in cultural evolution research. Drawing on a dataset of 7,205 machines spanning four decades, we reconstruct the evolutionary trajectories of arcade niches using a multi-scale framework that integrates trait-level innovation, genre-level selection, and systemic constraints. We identify two contrasting dynamics: (1) resilient genres-such as Fighter and Driving-maintained long-term viability through innovation and collaboration networks, while (2) early Maze and Shooter subgenres collapsed due to imitation and weak collaboration. Morphospace analysis reveals how technological traits-specifically CPU speed and ROM size-co-evolved with gameplay complexity, shaping the viable design space. We argue that genres operated as evolving cultural-ecological units-structured niches that shaped trait evolution through reinforcement, constraint, and feedback. This multi-scale perspective positions arcade games as a rich model system for studying cultural macroevolution.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e30"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12645339/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640810","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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African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology. 非洲竖琴作为文化进化的单位：对其形态的分支分析。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-29 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10009

Salomé Strauch, Guillaume Lecointre, Pierre Darlu, Sylvie Le Bomin

{"title":"African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology.","authors":"Salomé Strauch, Guillaume Lecointre, Pierre Darlu, Sylvie Le Bomin","doi":"10.1017/ehs.2025.10009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10009","url":null,"abstract":"In Africa, harps exhibit significant morphological diversity, yet their historical trajectory remains largely underexplored. Phylogenetic reconstruction methods offer valuable tools for understanding this diversity and the relationships between groups of harps. This study is among the first to apply one of these methods, cladistics, to the morphology of a musical instrument, analysing 318 harps and 83 characters. We present a well-resolved phylogenetic tree, which shows several clades corresponding to geocultural regions, in alignment with ethnomusicological classifications. We show that this tree robustly represents the patterns of vertical transmission in the cultural evolution of harp morphology across Africa, despite the limited contribution of several tested characters. Additionally, a comparison with previous research reveals that characters coding decorations exert a minimal influence on the vertical evolution of these musical instruments. These findings provide valuable insights into the cultural evolution of harps on a continental scale, offering a clearer understanding of their diversity and revealing major evolutionary mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":36414,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Human Sciences","volume":"7 ","pages":"e31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12645324/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640729","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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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies. 文化演变模式的对比：克拉代语言与织造技术。

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Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-07-25 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10008

Christopher D Buckley, Emma Kopp, Thomas Pellard, Robin J Ryder, Guillaume Jacques

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