Social grou** is omnipresent in the animal kingdom. Considerable research has focused
on understanding how animal groups form and function, including how collective behaviour …

During the latter half of the last century, evidence of reproductive competition between males
and male selection by females led to the development of a stereotypical view of sex …

The pursuit of social rank is a recurrent and pervasive challenge faced by individuals in all
human societies. Yet, the precise means through which individuals compete for social …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

Based on evolutionary logic, Henrich and Gil-White [Evolution and Human Behavior, 22 (3),
165–196] distinguished between two routes to attaining social status in human societies …

This paper advances an “information goods” theory that explains prestige processes as an
emergent product of psychological adaptations that evolved to improve the quality of …

Social status motivates much of human behavior. However, status may have been a
relatively weak target of selection for much of human evolution if ancestral foragers tended …

This is the third English edition of Motivation and Action, an extensively revised version of
the second English edition and fifth German edition, with four entirely new chapters. All …

Human life histories, as compared to those of other primates and mammals, have at least
four distinctive characteristics: an exceptionally long lifespan, an extended period of juvenile …

In this special section, Ekman and Cordaro (2011); Izard (2011); Levenson (2011); and
Panksepp and Watt (2011) have each outlined the latest instantiation of each lead author's …