Women and girls cooperate with each other across many domains and at many scales.
However, much of this information is buried in the ethnographic record and has been …

In order to take advantage of the power of social media to promote vaccination, this study
reveals the mechanisms of positive and negative impacts of social media news on vaccine …

Anthropologists have long studied how small-scale societies manage climate variation.
Here, we investigate how Yucatec Maya subsistence farmers respond to climate stress, and …

Many aspects of religious rituals suggest they provide adaptive benefits. Studies across
societies consistently find that investments in ritual behaviour return high levels of …

While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility
compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence …

The ability to choose the partners we interact with is thought to have been an important
driver in the evolution of human social behavior, and in particular, our propensity to …

People's networks are considered key in explaining fertility outcomes—whether people want
and have children. Existing research on social influences on fertility is limited because data …

Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality.
Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means …

Market exchange and the ideologies that accompany it pervade human social interaction.
How does this affect people's beliefs about themselves, each other, and human nature …

Along with the numerous highly interconnected nodes in real networks, a complex
dynamical network shows the dynamic behaviors not only in the nodes but also in the links …