Despite a long history of study, consensus on a human-typical mating system remains
elusive. While a simple classification would be useful for cross-species comparisons, across …

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

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist
Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes …

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …

We have identified a sample of 53 societies outside of the classical Himalayan and
Marquesean area that permit polyandrous unions. Our goal is to broadly describe the …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which
language depends. In From Signal to Symbol, Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a …

One hypothesis derived from evolutionary perspectives is that men are more upset than
women by sexual infidelity and women are more upset than men by emotional infidelity. The …

Sexual size dimorphism is generally associated with sexual selection via agonistic male
competition in nonhuman primates. These primate models play an important role in …