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Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons (2009)
Journal Article
Bentley, R., Cox, K., Tayles, N., Higham, C., Macpherson, C., Nowell, G., …Hayes, T. (2009). Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons. Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, 48(1), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.0.0017

Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C.–500 B.C.) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete g... Read More about Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons.

Lessons from animal teaching. (2008)
Journal Article
Hoppitt, W., Brown, G., Kendal, R., Rendell, L., Thornton, A., Webster, M., & Laland, K. (2008). Lessons from animal teaching. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, 486-493

Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. (2008)
Journal Article
Stanley, E., Kendal, R., Kendal, J., Grounds, S., & Laland, K. (2008). Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. Animal Behaviour, 75, 565-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.014

There is considerable laboratory-based evidence that social learning plays a role in the behaviour of many animals, including fishes. However, a weakness of such studies in fishes, is that in virtually all to-date, the behaviour exhibited could be le... Read More about Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes..

What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution? (2008)
Book Chapter
Layton, R. (2008). What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution?. In N. Allen, H. Callan, R. Dunbar, & W. James (Eds.), Early human kinship: from sex to social reproduction (113-127). (1). Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444302714.ch6

critically reviews methods for reconstructing past behaviour from ethnography, compares chimpanzee and hunter-gatherer social behaviour, and rejects some hypotheses proposed by other authors in the same volume.

Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends. (2008)
Book Chapter
Layton, R. (2008). Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends. In D. Papagianni, R. Layton, & H. Maschner (Eds.), Time and change: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on the long term (1-13). Oxbow

Discusses ways in which human agency revealed in archaeological moments such as tool-making at Boxgrove or dietary remains from a buried NW Coast native American village can be integrated nto the study of long term adaptive or social evolutionary tre... Read More about Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends..

Brain Modules: Mosaic Evolution. (2008)
Book Chapter
Barton, R. (2008). Brain Modules: Mosaic Evolution. In L. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (389-394). Academic Press

The only plausible scientific explanation for the existence of what Charles Darwin termed ‘‘organs of extreme perfection and complication,’’ such as the brain, is that they evolved over millennia by natural selection. The human brain contains million... Read More about Brain Modules: Mosaic Evolution..

Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds (2008)
Journal Article
Flynn, E., & Whiten, A. (2008). Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101(4), 228-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2008.05.009

We investigated developmental changes in the level of information children incorporate into their imitation when a model executes complex, hierarchically organized actions. A total of 57 3-year-olds and 60 5-year-olds participated, watching video dem... Read More about Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds.

Investigating children as cultural magnets: Do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains? (2008)
Journal Article
Flynn, E. (2008). Investigating children as cultural magnets: Do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1509), 3541-3551. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0136

The primary goal of this study was to investigate cultural transmission in young children, with specific reference to the phenomenon of overimitation. Diffusion chains were used to compare the imitation of 2- and 3-year-olds on a task in which the in... Read More about Investigating children as cultural magnets: Do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?.

Modelling social learning in monkeys. (2008)
Journal Article
Kendal, J. (in press). Modelling social learning in monkeys. The behavior analyst today, 9(1), 50-56

The application of modelling to social learning in monkey populations has been a neglected topic. Recently, however, a number of statistical, simulation and analytical approaches have been developed to help examine social learning processes, putative... Read More about Modelling social learning in monkeys..

Aboriginal versus western creationism. (2008)
Book Chapter
Layton, R. (2008). Aboriginal versus western creationism. In R. Bentley (Ed.), The edge of reason? Science and religion in modern society (31-38). Continuum Press

Compares traditional Australian religious beliefs with those of Christian creationists in the U.S. Outlines the social functions of Aboriginal belief and asks whether Christian creationism has similar functions that account for its persistence.

Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment (2008)
Journal Article
Mathews, P., & Sear, R. (2008). Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment. Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology, 6(3), 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.6.2008.3.1

Both life history theory and demographic transition theory predict that fertility responds to changes in mortality, but there have been relatively few tests which identify links between mortality perceptions and fertility preferences at the individua... Read More about Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment.

Kin and child survival in rural Malawi -Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society? (2008)
Journal Article
Sear, R. (2008). Kin and child survival in rural Malawi -Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society?. Human Nature, 19(3), 277-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9042-4

This paper investigates the impact of kin on child survival in a matrilineal society in Malawi. Women usually live in close proximity to their matrilineal kin in this agricultural community, allowing opportunities for helping behavior between matrili... Read More about Kin and child survival in rural Malawi -Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society?.

Father absence, parent-daughter relationships and partner preferences (2008)
Journal Article
Boothroyd, L., & Perrett, D. (2008). Father absence, parent-daughter relationships and partner preferences. Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology, 6(3), 187-205. https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.6.2008.3.3

The purpose of this research was to determine whether or not the father absence literature can be successfully used to predict patterns of female preferences for facial masculinity in young adulthood. Predictions were made based on the effect father... Read More about Father absence, parent-daughter relationships and partner preferences.