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Cross-cultural forager myth transmission rules: Implications for the emergence of cumulative culture 跨文化觅食者神话的传播规律：对累积文化出现的启示

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.01.012

Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Kieran J. Reilly

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Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador 模拟小规模社区的配偶选择：在美国和厄瓜多尔科南博应用夫妻模拟法

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.007

Daniel Conroy-Beam , John Q. Patton , Cari D. Goetz , Aaron W. Lukaszewski , Brenda Bowser

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Cultural and contextual variation in first mover norms of ownership: evidence from an Achuar community 先行者所有权规范的文化和环境差异：阿丘阿尔社区的证据

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.004

Ulises J. Espinoza, H. Clark Barrett

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Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2” 编辑概述和对约翰·巴顿的奉献:“来自野外的报道:来自生态多样性社区研究的见解:第2部分”

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.005

Elizabeth G. Pillsworth , Aaron W. Lukaszewski

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Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society 牧民社会中的人际冲突和第三方调解

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.10.003

Zachary H. Garfield , Luke Glowacki

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Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society 破坏平均主义:比较亚马逊社会政治变革的来源

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.09.001

Christopher R. von Rueden

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引用次数: 6

Non-kin alloparents and child outcomes: Older siblings, but not godparents, predict educational attainment in a rural context 非亲缘关系的异父异母关系与儿童结果：在农村地区，年长的兄弟姐妹（而非干爹干妈）能预测受教育程度

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.006

Eric B. Hubbard , Ollie Shannon , Anne C. Pisor

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Moralistic supernatural punishment is probably not associated with social complexity 道德上的超自然惩罚可能与社会复杂性无关

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.10.006

Aaron D. Lightner, Theiss Bendixen, Benjamin Grant Purzycki

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引用次数: 5

Letter from the Editor 编辑来信

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.008

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Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages 远近朋友，风雨同舟：坦桑尼亚渔村远近朋友求助偶然性比较

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.09.004

Kristopher M. Smith , Anne C. Pisor , Bertha Aron , Kasambo Bernard , Paschal Fimbo , Rose Kimesera , Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

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