Sarah Mesnick: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceKnowledge of the genetic structure of social groupings provides the basis for understanding the relative influences of kin selection and reciprocity in […]
Ivy Pike: University of Arizona Department of AnthropologyGrowing efforts to carefully link social environments to biological experiences have emerged in many disciplines; Anthropology is no exception. This integrative perspective aims […]
Michael McCullough: University of Miami Department of PsychologyExploitation—the targeted infliction of fitness costs on another organism for the purpose of capturing benefits for the self—is a fact of life for […]
Edward H. Hagen: Washington State University Vancouver Department of AnthropologyCurrent neurobiological theory of recreational drug use is based on the observation that all addictive drugs induce changes in activity of […]
Christopher von Rueden: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThe relationship between social status and reproductive success in small-scale societies can provide insight into how natural selection may have acted on status-seeking behavior […]
Andrew Delton: UCSB Department of Psychology and Center for Evolutionary PsychologyMembers of social species routinely make decisions that involve welfare allocations—decisions that impact the welfare of two or more parties. […]
Polly Wiessner: University of Utah Department of AnthropologyIndoctrinability, the capacity to be inculcated with values or doctrines and to accept them uncritically, poses an evolutionary puzzle because it can lead […]
Daniel M.T. Fessler: UCLA Department of AnthropologyThe evolutionary study of mind and behavior has benefited enormously from the functionality heuristic, i.e., the assumption that mental mechanisms can usefully be understood […]
Siobhán M. Mattison: Stanford University Department of Anthropology and Morrison Institute for Population and Resource StudiesThe study of kinship is foundational to anthropology. Though interest in kinship waned briefly, it […]
Peter Nonacs: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyHamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness broadly states that whether or not a trait increases in frequency is dependent on both the direct […]
