Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from
agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs …

Humans exhibit major age-related shifts in social relationships along with changes in social
and emotional psychological processes that underpin these behavioural shifts. Does social …

Within-group variation in sociality has been linked to correlates of fitness across vertebrates.
Individuals that form strong social bonds with a few partners, or are well integrated into a …

We provide the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of
the hypothesis that the emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin …

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 …

Variation in male mating success is often related to rank differences. Males who are unable
to monopolize oestrous females alone may engage in coalitions, thus enhancing their …

The extent of (in) equality is highly diverse across species of social mammals, but we have a
poor understanding of the factors that produce or inhibit equitable social organizations …

In this book, acclaimed economist Herbert Gintis ranges widely across many fields—
including economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, moral philosophy, and biology …

Two goals in the study of evolutionary anthropology are to determine the factors that make
humans unique and to reconstruct the evolution of our behavior. As humans' closest living …

P RIMATE SOCIALITY has many faces. Some callitrichines form small groups with just one
reproducing female and others who help care for her young. Hamadryas baboons (Papio …