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Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles 爱，欲望和身体亲密：催产素和不随意肌肉的收缩

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106724

David Haig

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The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice 病原体避免的烟雾探测器原理：行为免疫系统如何引起偏见的测试

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106716

Florian van Leeuwen , Bastian Jaeger , John Axelsson , D. Vaughn Becker , Lina S. Hansson , Julie Lasselin , Mats Lekander , Matti Vuorre , Joshua M. Tybur

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Commentary on: the ecological approach to culture by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André 评论：尼古拉斯·鲍玛和让-巴蒂斯特·安德烈的文化生态学方法

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106718

Christine A. Caldwell

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Ecological frameworks should not deny the importance of transmission: comment on Baumard and André “the ecological approach to culture” 生态框架不应否认传播的重要性——评鲍玛和安德烈的“文化的生态取向”

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106719

Claudio Tennie

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Culture is not ecology 文化不是生态

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106717

Kaleda K. Denton , Elisa Heinrich-Mora , Noah Egan , Marcus W. Feldman

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On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture 论文化生态学方法中概念清晰度和约束的重要性

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106723

Michael E.W. Varnum

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What do we want from culture? 我们想从文化中得到什么？

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106722

H. Clark Barrett

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Commentary on Baumard and André's the ecological approach to culture 鲍玛和安德烈的文化生态学研究述评

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106720

Peter J. Richerson

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Cultural evolution and the beneficiary question 文化演变与受益者问题

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106709

Jonathan Egeland

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Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial 口服避孕药和女性对面部阳刚和对称的偏好：来自双盲随机对照试验的证据

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106713

Eva Ranehill , Niklas Zethraeus , Coren L. Apicella , Liselott Blomberg , Bo von Schoultz , Angelica Lindén Hirschberg , Magnus Johannesson , Anna Dreber

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