Mate preferences and their behavioral manifestations

DM Buss, DP Schmitt - Annual review of psychology, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Evolved mate preferences comprise a central causal process in Darwin's theory of sexual
selection. Their powerful influences have been documented in all sexually reproducing …

The evolution of inequality

SM Mattison, EA Smith, MK Shenk… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how systems of political and economic inequality evolved from relatively
egalitarian origins has long been a focus of anthropological inquiry. Many hypotheses have …

[کتاب][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 …

Nutrition, the visceral immune system, and the evolutionary origins of pathogenic obesity

MJ West-Eberhard - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019‏ - pnas.org
The global obesity epidemic is the subject of an immense, diversely specialized research
effort. An evolutionary analysis reveals connections among disparate findings, starting with …

How sexually dimorphic are human mate preferences?

D Conroy-Beam, DM Buss, MN Pham… - Personality and …, 2015‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Previous studies on sex-differentiated mate preferences have focused on univariate
analyses. However, because mate selection is inherently multidimensional, a multivariate …

When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans

DOS Gillespie, AF Russell… - Proceedings of the …, 2008‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Maternal fitness should be maximized by the optimal division of reproductive investment
between offspring number and offspring quality. While evidence for this is abundant in many …

Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population

AD Hayward, IJ Rickard, V Lummaa - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013‏ - pnas.org
Individuals with insufficient nutrition during development often experience poorer later-life
health and evolutionary fitness. The Predictive Adaptive Response (PAR) hypothesis …

Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population

E Milot, FM Mayer, DH Nussey, M Boisvert… - Proceedings of the …, 2011‏ - pnas.org
It is often claimed that modern humans have stopped evolving because cultural and
technological advancements have annihilated natural selection. In contrast, recent studies …

Prehistoric population history in eastern Fennoscandia

M Tallavaara, P Pesonen, M Oinonen - Journal of archaeological science, 2010‏ - Elsevier
In this article, prehistoric population history in eastern Fennoscandia is modelled using
summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates. In addition, radiocarbon date …

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) …