[BOOK][B] Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind

DM Buss - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Parental investment and the optimization of human family size

DW Lawson, R Mace - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human reproductive behaviour is marked by exceptional variation at the population and
individual level. Human behavioural ecologists propose adaptive hypotheses to explain this …

Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography?

R Sear, DW Lawson, H Kaplan… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Decades of research on human fertility has presented a clear picture of how fertility varies,
including its dramatic decline over the last two centuries in most parts of the world. Why …

[HTML][HTML] Abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC) is an emerging but costly parental investment strategy in rural Ethiopia

MA Gibson, E Gurmu, R Chua, H Van Bavel… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGMC) has profound consequences for an estimated
200 million women world-wide, yet affected communities often resist efforts to end the …

The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival

DW Lawson, A Alvergne… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary models of human reproduction argue that variation in fertility can be
understood as the local optimization of a life-history trade-off between offspring quantity and …

The offspring quantity–quality trade-off and human fertility variation

DW Lawson… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The idea that trade-offs between offspring quantity and quality shape reproductive behaviour
has long been central to economic perspectives on fertility. It also has a parallel and richer …

Fertility decline and the changing dynamics of wealth, status and inequality

H Colleran, G Jasienska, I Nenko… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the course of demographic transitions (DTs), two large-scale trends become apparent:(i)
the broadly positive association between wealth, status and fertility tends to reverse, and (ii) …

Paternal investment and the positive effects of fathers among the matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China

SM Mattison, B Scelza… - American anthropologist, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania

S Hedges, MB Mulder, S James, DW Lawson - Evolution and human …, 2016 - Elsevier
Evolutionary and economic models of the demographic transition argue that economic
development incentivizes low-fertility, high-investment parental strategies, and that such …

The effect of income and wealth on behavioral strategies, personality traits, and preferences

M Boon-Falleur, N Baumard… - Perspectives on …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Individuals living in either harsh or favorable environments display well-documented
psychological and behavioral differences. For example, people in favorable environments …