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Evolutionary significance of the variation in acoustic communication of a cryptic nocturnal primate radiation (Microcebus spp.) (2020)
Journal Article
Hasiniaina, A. F., Radespiel, U., Kessler, S. E., Rina Evasoa, M., Rasoloharijaona, S., Randrianambinina, B., Zimmermann, E., Schmidt, S., & Scheumann, M. (2020). Evolutionary significance of the variation in acoustic communication of a cryptic nocturnal primate radiation (Microcebus spp.). Ecology and Evolution, 10(8), 3784-3797. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6177

Acoustic phenotypic variation is of major importance for speciation and the evolution of species diversity. Whereas selective and stochastic forces shaping the acoustic divergence of signaling systems are well studied in insects, frogs, and birds, kn... Read More about Evolutionary significance of the variation in acoustic communication of a cryptic nocturnal primate radiation (Microcebus spp.).

No Evidence that Omission and Confirmation Biases Affect the Perception and Recall of Vaccine-related Information (2020)
Journal Article
Jiménez, Á. V., Mesoudi, A., & Tehrani, J. J. (2020). No Evidence that Omission and Confirmation Biases Affect the Perception and Recall of Vaccine-related Information. PLoS ONE, 15(3), Article e0228898. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228898

Despite the spectacular success of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases, fears about their safety and other anti-vaccination claims are widespread. To better understand how such fears and claims persist and spread, we must understand how they a... Read More about No Evidence that Omission and Confirmation Biases Affect the Perception and Recall of Vaccine-related Information.

Muscles and the Media: A Natural Experiment Across Cultures in Men’s Body Image (2020)
Journal Article
Thornborrow, T., Onwuegbusi, T., Mohamed, S., Boothroyd, L. G., & Tovée, M. J. (2020). Muscles and the Media: A Natural Experiment Across Cultures in Men’s Body Image. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 495. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00495

An increasing number of studies are evidencing relationships between the drive for muscularity and potentially harmful behavioral strategies, such as unhealthy dieting and steroid use amongst men in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Dem... Read More about Muscles and the Media: A Natural Experiment Across Cultures in Men’s Body Image.

Adapting methodology used on captive subjects for estimating gut passage time in wild monkeys (2020)
Journal Article
Stringer, S. D., Hill, R. A., Swanepoel, L., & Koyama, N. F. (2020). Adapting methodology used on captive subjects for estimating gut passage time in wild monkeys. Folia Primatologica, 91(4), 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505369

Gut passage time of food has consequences for primate digestive strategies, which subsequently affect seed dispersal. Seed dispersal models are critical in understanding plant population and community dynamics through estimation of seed dispersal dis... Read More about Adapting methodology used on captive subjects for estimating gut passage time in wild monkeys.

Reflections on 'Babooning' (2020)
Book Chapter
Hill, R. (2020). Reflections on 'Babooning'. In T. Burt, & D. Thompson (Eds.), Curious about nature : a passion for fieldwork (218-222). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552172.028

I still look back on the fieldwork I undertook for my PhD as one of the most amazing periods of my life and an opportunity I was very fortunate to experience. Arriving in late 1996, I spent 14 months living on De Hoop Nature Reserve in the Western Ca... Read More about Reflections on 'Babooning'.

Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes (2020)
Journal Article
Kret, M., Prochazkova, E., Sterc, E. M., & Clay, Z. (2020). Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 115, 378-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.027

Humans and great apes are highly social species, and encounter conspecifics throughout their daily lives. During social interactions, they exchange information about their emotional states via expressions through different modalities including the fa... Read More about Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes.

Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence (2020)
Journal Article
Green, S., Rees, J., Stephens, P., Hill, R., & Giordano, A. (2020). Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence. Animals, 10(1), Article 132. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10010132

Camera trapping has become an increasingly reliable and mainstream tool for surveying a diversity of wildlife species. Concurrent with this has been an increasing effort to involve the wider public in the research process, in an approach known as ‘ci... Read More about Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation (2020)
Journal Article
LaBarge, L. R., Hill, R. A., Berman, C. M., Margulis, S. W., & Allan, A. T. L. (2020). Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation. American Journal of Primatology, 82(2), Article e23087. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23087

Predation risk affects prey species' behavior, even in the absence of a direct threat, but human‐induced environmental change may disturb ecologically significant predator–prey interactions. Here, we propose various ways in which knowledge of antipre... Read More about Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation.

Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics (2019)
Journal Article
Scanlon, L., Lobb, A., Tehrani, J. J., & Kendal, J. R. (2019). Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, Article e17. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.17

Forms of non-random copying error provide sources of inherited variation yet their effects on cultural evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Focusing on variation in granny and reef knot forms, we present a mathematical model that specifies ho... Read More about Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics.

Television Consumption Drives Perceptions of Female Body Attractiveness in a Population Undergoing Technological Transition (2019)
Journal Article
Boothroyd, L., Jucker, J.-L., Thornborrow, T., Barton, R., Burt, D., Evans, E., Jamieson, M., & Tovee, M. (2020). Television Consumption Drives Perceptions of Female Body Attractiveness in a Population Undergoing Technological Transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(4), 839-860. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000224

Perceptions of physical attractiveness vary across cultural groups, particularly for female body size and shape. It has been hypothesised that visual media propagates Western ‘thin ideals’. However, because cross-cultural studies typically consider g... Read More about Television Consumption Drives Perceptions of Female Body Attractiveness in a Population Undergoing Technological Transition.

The Impact of a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Intervention on Implicit Attitudes to Thinness in Women of Diverse Sexual Orientations (2019)
Journal Article
Kant, R. N., Wong-Chung, A., Evans, E. H., Stanton, E. C., & Boothroyd, L. G. (2019). The Impact of a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Intervention on Implicit Attitudes to Thinness in Women of Diverse Sexual Orientations. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 2611. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02611

Dissonance-based body image programs have shown long-term effectiveness in preventing eating disorders and reducing risk factors for eating disorders in women. Here we report on the potential for one such intervention to impact on implicit attitudes... Read More about The Impact of a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Intervention on Implicit Attitudes to Thinness in Women of Diverse Sexual Orientations.

Illuminating Movement? Nocturnal Activity Patterns in Chacma Baboons (2019)
Journal Article
Ayers, A. M., Allan, A. T. L., Howlett, C., Tordiffe, A. S. W., Williams, K. S., Williams, S. T., & Hill, R. A. (2020). Illuminating Movement? Nocturnal Activity Patterns in Chacma Baboons. Journal of Zoology, 310(4), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12747

Recent analyses have shown that typically diurnal primates may periodically exhibit some levels of activity at night. Despite this, there have been few studies that have explored whether diurnal primates living in temperate environments will extend t... Read More about Illuminating Movement? Nocturnal Activity Patterns in Chacma Baboons.

Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates (2019)
Journal Article
Powell, L. E., Barton, R. A., & Street, S. E. (2019). Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1911), Article 20191608. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1608

Life history is a robust correlate of relative brain size: larger-brained mammals and birds have slower life histories and longer lifespans than smaller-brained species. The cognitive buffer hypothesis (CBH) proposes an adaptive explanation for this... Read More about Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates.

Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact (2019)
Journal Article
Granito, C., Tehrani, J., Kendal, J., & Scott-Phillips, T. (2019). Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, Article e8. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.8

Pictorial representation is a key human behaviour. Cultures around the world have made images to convey information about living kinds, objects and ideas for at least 75,000 years, in forms as diverse as cave paintings, religious icons and emojis. Ho... Read More about Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact.

Brown Hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) diet composition from Zingela Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Faure, J., Holmes, N., Watson, L., & Hill, R. (2019). Brown Hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) diet composition from Zingela Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa. African Zoology, 54(2), 119-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2019.1600430

Brown hyaenas Parahyaena brunnea are classified as ‘Near Threatened’. Although predominantly scavengers, they are frequently blamed for livestock depredations leading to persecution. Information on brown hyaena diets is important for understanding th... Read More about Brown Hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) diet composition from Zingela Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Cultural change in animals: a flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance (2019)
Journal Article
Gruber, T., Luncz, L., Moerchen, J., Schuppli, C., Kendal, R., & Hockings, K. (2019). Cultural change in animals: a flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance. Palgrave communications, 5, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0271-4

In recent decades, researchers have increasingly documented the impact of anthropogenic activities on wild animals, particularly in relation to changes in behaviour. However, whether human-induced behavioural changes in wildlife may be considered evi... Read More about Cultural change in animals: a flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance.

Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’ (2019)
Journal Article
Stubbersfield, J. M., Dean, L. G., Sheikh, S., Laland, K. N., & Cross, C. P. (2019). Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’. Palgrave communications, 5(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0269-y

Moral stories are pervasive in human culture, forming the basis of religious texts, folklore, and newspaper articles. We used a linear transmission chain procedure to test three competing hypotheses: (1) that moral content in general is preferentiall... Read More about Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’.

Mate Preferences Across the Lifespan (2019)
Book Chapter
Boothroyd, L., & Vukovic, J. (2019). Mate Preferences Across the Lifespan. In L. Welling, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology and behavioral endocrinology (143-159). Oxford University Press

Humans show preferential responses to ‘attractive’ individuals from the first hours of life onwards. However, these early preferences are subject to later development, both in terms of increasing agreement on general attractiveness, and the emergence... Read More about Mate Preferences Across the Lifespan.