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Equivalence, causality, and cultural evolution 对等，因果关系和文化进化

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106755

Pat Barclay, Oliver Twardus

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Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window 在人类植入期间性动机降低

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106761

James R. Roney , Zachary L. Simmons , Mei Mei , Rachel L. Grillot , Melissa Emery Thompson

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Social structure, cultural selection and the limits of adaptive plasticity: a response to Baumard and André 社会结构、文化选择和适应性可塑性的限制：对鲍玛和安德罗的回应

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106753

Alexandra Alvergne

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Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution 重温俾斯麦式的福利：对暴力剥夺的恐惧促使人们支持再分配

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106754

Daniel Sznycer , Timothy C. Bates

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Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice 不受暴力侵害的意愿，独立于力量，指导着伴侣的选择

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106745

Michael Barlev , Sakura Arai , John Tooby , Leda Cosmides

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The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status 睾酮在基于气味的社会地位感知中的作用

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106752

Marlise K. Hofer , Tianqi Peng , Jennifer C. Lay , Frances S. Chen

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Are heritable individual differences just genetic noise? What the architecture of quantitative traits says about their evolution 可遗传的个体差异只是基因噪音吗？数量性状的结构说明了它们的进化

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106757

Marco Del Giudice

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Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on Lukaszewski and Manson (2025) 支持适应主义人格发展模型的证据讨论中的解释性问题：评Lukaszewski和Manson （2025）

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106759

Henry M. Wainwright

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Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice 父系投资和经济不平等预示着男性选择的跨文化差异

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106751

Jun-Hong Kim

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Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on Baumard and André (2025) 文化作为贯穿生命史权衡的集体资源分配：鲍玛尔和安德烈（2025）评论

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106748

Albina Gallyamova, Dmitry Grigoryev

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