From the popularity of authoritarian political leaders to the under-representation of women in
boardrooms, leadership is an important theme in current human social affairs. Leadership is …

Many researchers have turned to evolutionary theory to better understand diversity in
leadership. Evolutionary theories of leadership, in turn, draw on ethnographic cases of …

In this paper Vavilov centers, which are crop biodiversity hotspots, are considered as
agricultural areas of original crop evolution and crop diversity and therefore as pristine …

This chapter posits the processes that favored the rise of ranked polities in Scandinavia
during the Bronze Age. We put forth the Supra Regional Interaction Hypothesis to explain …

In our species mating, reproduction, and pair-bonding are inextricably linked to the cultural
institution of marriage. Across societies marital norms influence sexual and economic …

This special issue of Human Nature presents selected works from the 2015 and 2017
“Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability”(WESIPS) conferences held at …

Archaeological discussions commonly link the trade and exchange of precious metals,
shells, feathers, and other exotics to the demands of a prestige-goods economy (eg …

Corruption is deeply entrenched in Papua New Guinea (PNG)'s administrative and political
systems. However, despite a litany of studies on mainstream institutional causes of …

Humans with modern anatomies and sophisticated cultural capacities have existed for at
least 200,000 years and began worldwide expansion about 60,000 years ago (Bergström et …

We live in a world where three financial titans, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk,
are sinking enormous sums of money into a race to the stars. Bezos's New Shepherd Rocket …