Near the KnuckleSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 30 - Trang 272-298 - 2019
Robert King, Caoilfhionn O’Riordan
Irish Travellers constitute a pre-demographic-shift population living among a post-demographic-shift one. Their socio-medico profile identifies them as largely on fast life-history trajectories. In addition, they are strongly religious (typically using no contraception), highly sexually behaviorally dimorphic, with strong traditions of male-male competition (bare-knuckle fighting) and quasi-symbol...... hiện toàn bộ
The Origins of Prestige Goods as Honest Signals of Skill and KnowledgeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 19 - Trang 374-388 - 2008
Aimée M. Plourde
This work addresses the emergence of prestige goods, which appear with fully modern Homo sapiens but at different times in different regions. I theorize that such goods came into existence to signal the level of skill held by their owners, in order to gain deference benefits from learning individuals in exchange for access. A game theoretic model demonstrates that a signaling strategy can invade a...... hiện toàn bộ
“Only slaves climb trees”Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 339-357 - 1994
Allyn MacLean Stearman
Professional and popular publications have increasingly depicted native peoples of Amazonia as “natural” conservationists or as people with an innate “conservation ethic.” A few classic examples are cited repeatedly to advance this argument with the result that these cases tend to be generalized to all indigenous peoples. This paper explores the premise that many of these systems of resource conse...... hiện toàn bộ
The Rebirth of KinshipSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 Số 1-2 - Trang 1-15 - 2011
Mary K. Shenk, Siobhán M. Mattison
Women Who Know Their PlaceSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 23 - Trang 133-148 - 2012
Ariane Burke, Anne Kandler, David Good
Differences between men and women in the performance of tests designed to measure spatial abilities are explained by evolutionary psychologists in terms of adaptive design. The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Spatial Ability suggests that the adoption of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle (assuming a sexual division of labor) created differential selective pressure on the development of spatial skills in men a...... hiện toàn bộ