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Cooperators Attract Cooperators, Non-Cooperators are Stuck with Each Other
In catching up on a back-log of articles people have emailed me, I’m absorbing what I think are probably obvious but nonetheless profound implications of a study by Coren Apicella, Frank Marlowe, James Fowler, & Nicholas Christakis that was published … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Cultural Evolution
Tagged behavioral immune system, cooperation, Coren L. Apicella, degree assortativity, degree distribution, Frank W. Marlowe, free-riders, Hadza, homophily, hunter-gatherers, James H. Fowler, Joseph Henrich, Nicholas A. Christakis, parasite-driven wedge, reciprocity, social networks, transitivity
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Remembering Brent Colyer: Serotonin, Alcoholism, & Evolution
I am beginning the writing of this on Saturday, December 8, around 11:30PM. A week ago & a few hours earlier, I was agitating over six lead changes as I watched Bama ultimately beat Georgia in the SEC college football … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Anthropology, Evolution and Biology, Genetics, Primates, Variation
Tagged 5-HHTLPR, alcoholism, behavioral immune system, Brent Colyer, Bukowski, cultural neuroscience, gene-by-environment interaction, macaques, maternal buffering, Morning Shakes, neuroanthropology, Neuroscience, orchid-dandelion hypothesis, Robert Sapolsky, serotonin, SERT
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“Human Canvas” & “Upping-the-Ante” Hypotheses for the Evolutionary Significance of Tattooing
Despite the promise of evolutionary discussions of tattooing in my blog title, I have yet live up to the provocation it inspires…until now. Honestly, I’ve had a post about Iban tattooing & sexual selection in the back of my mind … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged behavioral immune system, human canvas hypothesis, innoculation hypothesis, Jean-Bernard Bossu, tattooing, upping-the-ante hypothesis
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HBES 2012 Roundup 4: Father’s Day & the Parasite-Driven Wedge
So I blew Father’s Day. Totally didn’t realize I’d booked myself to go to HBES on Father’s Day. And much as I love my dad, it wasn’t because I wasn’t going to be with him. It was because my wife … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Cultural Evolution, Evolution and Psychology, Hypotheses
Tagged behavioral immune system, Corey Fincher, Costa Rica, Father's Day, HBES, Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Karen Wynn, Li Mate Value Inventory, parasite-driven wedge, Randy Thornhill, Religious ecology study
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HBES 2012 Roundup 3: Kissing Petri Dishes & Staring at Gross Things to Get all Hot & Bothered
The highlight of Saturday’s talks was my slowly growing consciousness of this new theoretical paradigm called the “behavioral immune system” that I’ve written about in the past & will write about again in the future but the scope (& name) … Continue reading
HBES 2012 Roundup 2: Brian Hare’s Chimp/Bonobo Cognition Plenary, Mommy Brain Fogs, & Baba Brinkman Evolution Raps
Friday’s HBES meetings started with a plenary by anthropologist Brian Hare from Duke. Let me just say that I like the starting days with plenaries. No presenters have to “pay dues” with crappy earlier spots that everyone sleeps through. People … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution and Biology, Evolution and Psychology, Evolutionary Medicine, Mating and Sexuality, Primates
Tagged Baba Brinkman, behavioral immune system, bonobos, Brian Hare, chimps, HBES, Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Laura Glynn, lipstick effect, pregnancy brain
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HBES 2012 Roundup 1: Joint Day with the Animal Behavior Society
The Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES) 2012 Annual Meetings took place this past weekend in Albuquerque, NM, in conjunction with the Animal Behavior Society, hosted by Steve Gangestad & others. I’ve only been to HBES one other time & … Continue reading
