Contemporary inequality exists at an unprecedented scale. Social scientists have
emphasized the role played by material wealth in driving its escalation. Evolutionary …

Humans evolved to solve adaptive problems with kin and nonkin across fitness-relevant
domains, including childcare and resource sharing, among others. Therefore, there is a …

Our analysis raises important questions for the academic fields of international relations and
security studies, especially in light of the fact that the US Department of Defense (DoD) paid …

Does kinship still matter in today's globalized, increasingly mobile world? Do family
structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different …

While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility
compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence …

Destination image plays a crucial role in tourism, and its dynamic process of formation and
change is still being studied. A famous World Heritage site, the old town of Lijiang has …

ABSTRACT The matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China have been described as the only
human society that lacks fathers and husbands. These claims are based on ethnographic …

Matriliny has long been debated by anthropologists positing either its primitive or its puzzling
nature. More recently, evolutionary anthropologists have attempted to recast matriliny as an …

" Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest
China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from …

The relative importance of social evolution theories such as kin selection, direct reciprocity
and need-based transfers in explaining real-world cooperation is the source of much …