Highlights•Social rank in humans derives from the capacity to inflict costs (dominance) or the
capacity to benefit others (prestige).•Evidence indicates that social rank accrues to …

Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from
agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs …

Humans behave altruistically in natural settings and experiments. A possible explanation—
that groups with more altruists survive when groups compete—has long been judged …

Social organization among human foragers is characterized by a three-generational system
of resource provisioning within families, long-term pair-bonding between men and women …

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do
women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from …

We provide the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of
the hypothesis that the emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin …

Rank differentiation is ubiquitous in human societies, with social asymmetries being ever
present within and between groups (Leavitt, 2005; Wiessner & Schiefenhövel, 1998). Social …

Where individuals contest access to a resource, escalated physical fighting presents a risk to
all involved. The requirement for mechanisms of conflict management has led to the …

In this book, acclaimed economist Herbert Gintis ranges widely across many fields—
including economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, moral philosophy, and biology …

The extent of (in) equality is highly diverse across species of social mammals, but we have a
poor understanding of the factors that produce or inhibit equitable social organizations …