Human groups maintain a high level of sociality despite a low level of relatedness among
group members. This paper reviews the evidence for an empirically identifiable form of …

Although few hunter‐gatherers or foragers exist today, they are well documented in the
ethnographic record. Anthropologists have been eager to study them since they assumed …

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The founding fathers of the social sciences recognized commensality as a major issue but
considered it mostly in a religious, sacrificial, ritualistic context. The notion of commensality …

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This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our
knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott …

Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology
supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on …

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the
behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science …

Despite the prevalence of an ethic of generosity among foragers, much sharing is by
demand rather than by unsolicited giving. Although a behavioristic model of demand sharing …

Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition,
ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its …