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Evolving social influence in large populations (2011)
Journal Article
Bentley, R., Ormerod, P., & Batty, M. (2011). Evolving social influence in large populations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65(3), 537-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-010-1102-1

Darwinian studies of collective human behaviour, which deal fluently with change and are grounded in the details of social influence among individuals, have much to offer “social” models from the physical sciences which have elegant statistical regul... Read More about Evolving social influence in large populations.

Resolving management conflicts: could agricultural land provide the answer for an endangered species in a habitat classified as a World Heritage Site? (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, R., Ryan, E., Morley, E., & Hill, R. (2011). Resolving management conflicts: could agricultural land provide the answer for an endangered species in a habitat classified as a World Heritage Site?. Environmental Conservation, 38(3), 325-333. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892911000105

The short-interval fires required to promote grazing for large herbivores within the Cape Floristic Region World Heritage Site are detrimental to plant diversity. At the same time, longer interval fires significantly reduce graze quality. Conservatio... Read More about Resolving management conflicts: could agricultural land provide the answer for an endangered species in a habitat classified as a World Heritage Site?.

Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution (2011)
Journal Article
Mesoudi, A. (2011). Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution. PLoS ONE, 6(3), Article e18239. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018239

One of the hallmarks of the human species is our capacity for cumulative culture, in which beneficial knowledge and technology is accumulated over successive generations. Yet previous analyses of cumulative cultural change have failed to consider the... Read More about Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution.

Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus (2011)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Tehrani, J., & Odling-Smee, J. (2011). Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1566), 785-792. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0306

Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance, comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche... Read More about Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus.

Interactions between cognition and culture (2011)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2011). Interactions between cognition and culture. In V. Swami (Ed.), Evolutionary psychology : a critical introduction (311-342). Wiley

This chapter takes a broad and often comparative perspective to look at the interactions between cognition and culture. After a brief introduction of the methods used to study cultural evolution and gene-culture co-evolution (G-CC), there is a review... Read More about Interactions between cognition and culture.

Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. (2011)
Journal Article
Clay, Z., Pika, S., Gruber, T., & Zuberbuhler, K. (2011). Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals. Biology Letters, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1227

During mating events, females of many primate species produce loud and distinct vocalizations known as ‘copulation calls’. The adaptive significance of these signals is considered to be in promoting the caller's direct reproductive success. Here, we... Read More about Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals..

Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity (2011)
Journal Article
Brown, G., Dickins, T., Sear, R., & Laland, K. (2011). Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1563), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0267

Human beings persist in an extraordinary range of ecological settings, in the process exhibiting enormous behavioural diversity, both within and between populations. People vary in their social, mating and parental behaviour and have diverse and elab... Read More about Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity.

Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence (2011)
Journal Article
Boothroyd, L., Cross, C., Gray, A., Coombes, C., & Gregson-Curtis, K. (2011). Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(3), 422-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.017

Certain physical traits are associated with individuals’ tendency towards short-term sexual relationships (as assayed by the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory). Observers may be able to accurately detect sociosexuality at zero acquaintance. Here we s... Read More about Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence.

How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition (2011)
Journal Article
Sear, R., & Coall, D. (2011). How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition. Population and Development Review, 37(Supplement S1), 81-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00379.x

In this paper we review the empirical evidence that women receive help from family members in raising children, by drawing together published research which has explicitly investigated the impact of kin on child well-being. It is clear from this revi... Read More about How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition.

Placentation and maternal investment in mammals (2011)
Journal Article
Capellini, I., Venditti, C., & Barton, R. (2011). Placentation and maternal investment in mammals. The American Naturalist, 177(1), 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1086/657435

The mammalian placenta exhibits striking inter-specific morphological variation, yet the implications of such diversity for reproductive strategies and fetal development remain obscure. More invasive hemochorial placentae, in which fetal tissues dire... Read More about Placentation and maternal investment in mammals.

Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills (2011)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Kendal, J., & Tyniec, P. (2011). Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.06.004

The concept of female cycle (or estrous) synchrony has enduring popular appeal. However, critical reviews of estrous synchrony studies in both humans and non-humans have found that synchrony has not been demonstrated convincingly, due to methodologic... Read More about Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills.

Adaptive Evolution of Four Microcephaly Genes and the Evolution of Brain Size in Anthropoid Primates (2011)
Journal Article
Montgomery, S., Capellini, I., Venditti, C., Barton, R., & Mundy, N. (2011). Adaptive Evolution of Four Microcephaly Genes and the Evolution of Brain Size in Anthropoid Primates. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(1), 625-638. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq237

The anatomical basis and adaptive function of the expansion in primate brain size have long been studied; however, we are only beginning to understand the genetic basis of these evolutionary changes. Genes linked to human primary microcephaly have re... Read More about Adaptive Evolution of Four Microcephaly Genes and the Evolution of Brain Size in Anthropoid Primates.

Parenting and families (2011)
Book Chapter
Sear, R. (2011). Parenting and families. In V. Swami (Ed.), Evolutionary psychology : a critical introduction (215-250). Wiley

Parenting in Homo sapiens is rather different to parenting in most other primates. Our long developmental period and relatively short birth intervals mean that offspring are ‘stacked’, with mothers having to simultaneously look after several dependen... Read More about Parenting and families.