Understanding how female baboons benefit from social bonds helps humans understand their own origins.
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Social inequalities emerge in every human society. New research into how these hierarchies form suggests ‘prestige psychology’ – the tendency to defer to expertise – is at the root.
Conspiracy thinking, supernatural beliefs and pseudoscience can seem impervious to evidence. An anthropologist suggests the opposite: Extraordinary beliefs may be supported by an individual’s experience.
Scientists write papers to share their results – and gain prestige and advance their careers. In this competitive field, selection can favor AI-written papers, citation cartels, paper mills and more.
The Paleo Diet is popular, but research has yet to substantiate its purported health benefits. As evolutionary anthropologists, here’s why we think it’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past.
Human beings evolved to nurture – and that drive can extend to children who aren’t your own and even to members of other species.
New evidence affirms that significant, long-standing inter-group cultural differences shaped the later stages of human evolution in Africa.
Recognizing the influence of evolution on behavior and gender norms suggests ways to reduce gender inequality in leadership in the real world.
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Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
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Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies, and Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
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PhD Student in Archaeology , Simon Fraser University
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Adjunct assistant professor, Boise State University
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Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University