Many researchers assume that until 10–12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile,
relatively egalitarian bands. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” suffuses the social sciences. It …

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 …

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were
Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes …

Social networks show striking structural regularities,, and both theory and evidence suggest
that networks may have facilitated the development of large-scale cooperation in humans …

Humans, unlike any other multicellular species in Earth's history, have emerged as a global
force that is transforming the ecology of an entire planet. It is no longer possible to …

Humans prefer relatively equal distributions of resources,,,,, yet societies have varying
degrees of economic inequality. To investigate some of the possible determinants and …

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 …

Mobile hunter-gatherers are often characterized as living in small communities where
mobility and group size are products of the environmentally determined distribution of …