Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans,
where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a …

Human behavioral ecology (HBE) is the study of human behavior from an adaptive
perspective. It focuses in particular on how human behavior varies with ecological context …

How wealth is distributed among households provides insight into the fundamental
characters of societies and the opportunities they afford for social mobility,. However …

Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and
interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved …

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do
women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from …

The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the
nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a …

Understanding how systems of political and economic inequality evolved from relatively
egalitarian origins has long been a focus of anthropological inquiry. Many hypotheses have …

The global obesity epidemic is the subject of an immense, diversely specialized research
effort. An evolutionary analysis reveals connections among disparate findings, starting with …

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great
amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific …

We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population-wide
inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter-gatherer populations. Wealth is defined …