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Evidence for Greater Marking along Ethnic Boundaries. 证据表明种族边界的标记性更强。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09479-1

Lisa Morgan Johnson, Adrian V Bell, Marianna Di Paolo

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Focal Coordination and Language in Human Evolution. 人类进化中的焦点协调与语言

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09476-4

Roger Myerson

{"title":"Focal Coordination and Language in Human Evolution.","authors":"Roger Myerson","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09476-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09476-4","url":null,"abstract":"We study game-theoretic models of human evolution to analyze fundamentals of human nature. Rival-claimants games represent common situations in which animals can avoid conflict over valuable resources by mutually recognizing asymmetric claiming rights. Unlike social-dilemma games, rival-claimants games have multiple equilibria which create a rational role for communication, and so they may be good models for the role of language in human evolution. Many social animals avoid conflict by dominance rankings, but intelligence and language allow mutual recognition of more complex norms for determining political rank or economic ownership. Sophisticated forms of economic ownership could become more advantageous when bipedalism allowed adaptation of hands for manufacturing useful objects. Cultural norms for claiming rights could develop and persist across generations in communities where the young have an innate interest in learning from their elders about when one can appropriately claim desirable objects. Then competition across communities would favor cultures where claiming rights are earned by prosocial behavior, such as contributions to public goods. With the development of larger societies in which many local communities share a common culture, individuals would prefer to interact with strangers who identifiably share this culture, because shared cultural principles reduce risks of conflict in rival-claimants games.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"289-306"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11645385/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Origins of War : A Global Archaeological Review. 战争的起源：全球考古回顾。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09477-3

Hugo Meijer

{"title":"The Origins of War : A Global Archaeological Review.","authors":"Hugo Meijer","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09477-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09477-3","url":null,"abstract":"How old is war? Is it a deep-seated propensity in the human species or is it a recent cultural invention? This article investigates the archaeological evidence for prehistoric war across world regions by probing two competing hypotheses. The \"deep roots\" thesis asserts that war is an evolved adaptation that humans inherited from their common ancestor with chimpanzees, from which they split around seven million years ago, and that persisted throughout prehistory, encompassing both nomadic and sedentary hunter-gatherer societies. In contrast, the \"shallow roots\" viewpoint posits that peaceful intergroup relations are ancestral in humans, suggesting that war emerged only recently with the development of sedentary, hierarchical, and densely populated societies, prompted by the agricultural revolution ~ 12,000-10,000 years ago. To ascertain which position is best supported by the available empirical evidence, this article reviews the prehistoric archaeological record for both interpersonal and intergroup conflict across world regions, following an approximate chronological sequence from the emergence of humans in Africa to their dispersal out of Africa in the Near East, Europe, Australia, Northeast Asia, and the Americas. This worldwide analysis of the archaeological record lends partial support to both positions, but neither the \"deep roots\" nor the \"shallow roots\" argument is fully vindicated. Intergroup relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers were marked neither by relentless war nor by unceasingly peaceful interactions. What emerges from the archaeological record is that, while lethal violence has deep roots in the Homo lineage, prehistoric group interactions-ranging from peaceful cooperation to conflict-exhibited considerable plasticity and variability, both over time and across world regions, which constitutes the true evolutionary puzzle.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"225-288"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Hadza Landscape Burning. 哈扎景观燃烧。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09475-5

Jacob A Harris, Mariamu Anyawire, Audax Mabulla, Brian M Wood

{"title":"Hadza Landscape Burning.","authors":"Jacob A Harris, Mariamu Anyawire, Audax Mabulla, Brian M Wood","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09475-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09475-5","url":null,"abstract":"We present the first published ethnographic description of landscape burning by Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania and identify environmental, social, and cultural influences on Hadza landscape burning, thereby broadening the ethnographic record of anthropogenic burning practices described for hunter-gatherer communities. We report interview data collected in 2022 and 2023, describing their practices and attitudes regarding the causes and consequences of burning. We provide context by comparing our observations with those recorded for hunting and gathering populations in Africa, Australia, and North America. Hadza landscape burning is generally a solitary and male-dominated activity, contrary to ethnographic accounts of Indigenous landscape burning from North America and Australia. The primary goals stated by Hadza for landscape burning were improved hunting, reduced hazards from dangerous animals, and to reduce the density of livestock. Firsthand observations suggest that landscape burning has decreased over the past 20 years, and this historical trend is supported by interviews. Satellite imagery also suggests an overall decrease in burning activity in the region from 2001 to 2022. Among the Hadza, landscape burning is a culturally influenced and strongly gender-biased activity that is rapidly disappearing. Because burning can radically transform landscapes, these practices often generate or amplify conflicts of interest between groups with different land use strategies. Hadza report serious social conflict with pastoralists over landscape burning, and our study suggests this tension has constrained the practice in the past two decades.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"197-224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Human Male Body Size Predicts Increased Knockout Power, Which Is Accurately Tracked by Conspecific Judgments of Male Dominance. 人类雄性体型预示着击倒力的增强，而同类对雄性统治力的判断可准确跟踪击倒力的增强。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-15 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09473-7

Neil R Caton, Lachlan M Brown, Amy A Z Zhao, Barnaby J W Dixson

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Racial and Temporal Differences in Fertility-Education Trade-Offs Reveal the Effect of Economic Opportunities on Optimum Family Size in the United States. 生育-教育权衡中的种族和时间差异揭示了经济机会对美国最佳家庭规模的影响。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09472-8

Sally Li

{"title":"Racial and Temporal Differences in Fertility-Education Trade-Offs Reveal the Effect of Economic Opportunities on Optimum Family Size in the United States.","authors":"Sally Li","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09472-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09472-8","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary trends in low fertility can in part be explained by increasing incentives to invest in offspring's embodied capital over offspring quantity in environments where education is a salient source of social mobility. However, studies on this subject have often neglected to empirically examine heterogeneity, missing out on the opportunity to investigate how this relationship is impacted when individuals are excluded from meaningful participation in economic spheres. Using General Social Survey data from the United States, I examine changes in the relationship between number of siblings and college attendance for White and Black respondents throughout the 1900s. Results show that in the early 1900s, White individuals from larger families had a lower chance of completing four years of college education than those from smaller families, whereas the likelihood for Black individuals was more uniform across family sizes. These racial differences mostly converged in the later part of the century. These results may help explain variations in the timing of demographic transitions within different racial groups in the United States and suggest that the benefits of decreasing family size on educational outcomes may be conditional on the specific economic opportunities afforded to a family.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"134-152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141155773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. 保护失败导致死亡？婴儿猝死综合症的进化-发展理论。

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09474-6

Herbert Renz-Polster, Peter S Blair, Helen L Ball, Oskar G Jenni, Freia De Bock

{"title":"Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.","authors":"Herbert Renz-Polster, Peter S Blair, Helen L Ball, Oskar G Jenni, Freia De Bock","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09474-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09474-6","url":null,"abstract":"Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been mainly described from a risk perspective, with a focus on endogenous, exogenous, and temporal risk factors that can interact to facilitate lethal outcomes. Here we discuss the limitations that this risk-based paradigm may have, using two of the major risk factors for SIDS, prone sleep position and bed-sharing, as examples. Based on a multipronged theoretical model encompassing evolutionary theory, developmental biology, and cultural mismatch theory, we conceptualize the vulnerability to SIDS as an imbalance between current physiologic-regulatory demands and current protective abilities on the part of the infant. From this understanding, SIDS appears as a developmental condition in which competencies relevant to self-protection fail to develop appropriately in the future victims. Since all of the protective resources in question are bound to emerge during normal infant development, we contend that SIDS may reflect an evolutionary mismatch situation-a constellation in which certain modern developmental influences may overextend the child's adaptive (evolutionary) repertoire. We thus argue that SIDS may be better understood if the focus on risk factors is complemented by a deeper appreciation of the protective resources that human infants acquire during their normal development. We extensively analyze this evolutionary-developmental theory against the body of epidemiological and experimental evidence in SIDS research and thereby also address the as-of-yet unresolved question of why breastfeeding may be protective against SIDS.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"153-196"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11317453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141789485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","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 Evolution of Games of Chance : A Historical Investigation of Chinese Gambling. 机会游戏的文化演变：中国赌博的历史考察》（The Cultural Evolution of Games of Chance : A Historical Investigation of Chinese Gambling.

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09471-9

Ze Hong

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Historical Mortality Dynamics on the Baja California Peninsula : Marriage, Mining Booms, Migration, and Infectious Disease. 下加利福尼亚半岛的历史死亡率动态：婚姻、采矿业繁荣、移民和传染病。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09469-3

Shane J Macfarlan, Ryan Schacht, Isabelle Forrest, Abigail Swanson, Cynthia Moses, Thomas McNulty, Katelyn Cowley, Celeste Henrickson

{"title":"Historical Mortality Dynamics on the Baja California Peninsula : Marriage, Mining Booms, Migration, and Infectious Disease.","authors":"Shane J Macfarlan, Ryan Schacht, Isabelle Forrest, Abigail Swanson, Cynthia Moses, Thomas McNulty, Katelyn Cowley, Celeste Henrickson","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09469-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09469-3","url":null,"abstract":"Historical demographic research shows that the factors influencing mortality risk are labile across time and space. This is particularly true for datasets that span societal transitions. Here, we seek to understand how marriage, migration, and the local economy influenced mortality dynamics in a rapidly changing environment characterized by high in-migration and male-biased sex ratios. Mortality records were extracted from a compendium of historical vital records for the Baja California peninsula (Mexico). Our sample consists of 1,201 mortality records spanning AD 1835-1900. Findings from Cox proportional hazard models indicate that (1) marriage was associated with a protective effect for both sexes; (2) residing in a mining town was associated with higher mortality for men, but not women; (3) migration was associated with decreased mortality risk for women, but not men; and (4) the risk of mortality increased in the face of infectious disease, but decreased over time. Despite the early initiation of reproduction for women, marriage had a protective effect, likely because marriage linked women to resources. Although mining boomtowns were associated with elevated risk factors generally, only men experienced greater mortality risk, likely due to dangerous working conditions that women did not experience. Last, female, but not male, migrants experienced greater longevity, possibly because exposure to harsh labor conditions eroded the protective effect of selection bias for men. Together, these results shed light on an understudied historical population and broaden our understanding of demographic dynamics in preindustrial settings.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Alloparental Support and Infant Psychomotor Developmental Delay. 全职父母的支持与婴儿心理运动发育迟缓。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-024-09468-4

David Waynforth

{"title":"Alloparental Support and Infant Psychomotor Developmental Delay.","authors":"David Waynforth","doi":"10.1007/s12110-024-09468-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-024-09468-4","url":null,"abstract":"Receiving social support from community and extended family has been typical for mothers with infants in human societies past and present. In non-industrialised contexts, infants of mothers with extended family support often have better health and higher survival through the vulnerable infant period, and hence shared infant care has a clear fitness benefit. However, there is scant evidence that these benefits continue in industrialised contexts. Better infant health and development with allocare support would indicate continued evolutionary selection for allocare. The research reported here used multiple logistic regression analysis to test whether a lack of family and other social support for mothers was associated with an increased risk of developmental delay in 9-month-old infants in the UK Millennium Cohort (analysis sample size, 15,696 infants). Extended family-based childcare during work hours and more maternal time spent with friends were the most influential kin and social support variables: infants of mothers with kin-based childcare versus all other childcare arrangements had a lower risk of developmental delay (OR = 0.61, 95% CIs: 0.46-0.82). Infants of mothers who spent no time with friends when compared with those who saw friends every day had double the odds of delay. Greater paternal involvement in infant care was associated with a lower odds of developmental delay. In conclusion, shared care of infants and social support for mothers may influence fitness-related traits in industrialised societies rather than being factors that influenced selection only in the past and in societies which retain close kin networks and a strong local community focus.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"43-62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11052766/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139730737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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