Father absence in early life has been shown to be associated with accelerated reproductive
development in girls. Evolutionary social scientists have proposed several adaptive …

Highlights•Much 'parenting'is done by alloparents in our species.•Alloparenting is universal
but who helps varies somewhat between populations.•Fathering is typical but …

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economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more"(Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint …

Long-lasting, romantic partnerships are a universal feature of human societies, but almost as
ubiquitous is the risk of instability when one partner strays. Jealous response to the threat of …

The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on
horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard …

Anthropologists are interested in understanding patterns of human variation, whether
assessed along cultural, biological, linguistic, or material metrics. Epigenetics, the study of …

Unlike most mammals, human fathers cooperate with mothers to care for young to an
extraordinary degree. Human paternal care likely evolved alongside our unique life history …

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for a better future—in this fascinating book for fans of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel …

Contemporary inequality exists at an unprecedented scale. Social scientists have
emphasized the role played by material wealth in driving its escalation. Evolutionary …

Despite the tendency of some academic disciplines to assume that the nuclear family is
normative, the family takes a number of different forms cross-culturally. Regardless of family …