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What is the average genetic relatedness to our first cousins?
What is the average genetic relatedness to our first cousins?
According to inclusive fitness theory, what is the general genetic relatedness to our grandparents and grandchildren?
According to inclusive fitness theory, what is the general genetic relatedness to our grandparents and grandchildren?
From an evolutionary perspective, why might families form?
From an evolutionary perspective, why might families form?
Why is it hard to imagine a world where everyone loves everyone else equally, according to the text?
Why is it hard to imagine a world where everyone loves everyone else equally, according to the text?
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What does the text suggest about maternal grandmothers' investment in their grandkids compared to paternal grandfathers?
What does the text suggest about maternal grandmothers' investment in their grandkids compared to paternal grandfathers?
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What does inclusive fitness theory explain?
What does inclusive fitness theory explain?
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What is the general genetic relatedness to uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews?
What is the general genetic relatedness to uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews?
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According to Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness, what does it suggest about psychological adaptations?
According to Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness, what does it suggest about psychological adaptations?
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How is the parent-child relationship viewed under the theory of inclusive fitness?
How is the parent-child relationship viewed under the theory of inclusive fitness?
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What is the genetic relatedness between full siblings?
What is the genetic relatedness between full siblings?
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What is a recurrent selection pressure in human evolutionary history related to sibling relationships?
What is a recurrent selection pressure in human evolutionary history related to sibling relationships?
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"Birth order can create different 'niches' for children". How does this influence children according to the text?
"Birth order can create different 'niches' for children". How does this influence children according to the text?
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"Siblings face unique adaptive problems as both major social allies and competitors for parental resources." What does this imply about sibling relationships?
"Siblings face unique adaptive problems as both major social allies and competitors for parental resources." What does this imply about sibling relationships?
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How does the distinction between full and half-siblings impact cooperation according to the text?
How does the distinction between full and half-siblings impact cooperation according to the text?
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What does the 'grandmother hypothesis' propose?
What does the 'grandmother hypothesis' propose?
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What did the study in Finland find about full and half-siblings?
What did the study in Finland find about full and half-siblings?
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What is the expected role of elder members of extended kin families?
What is the expected role of elder members of extended kin families?
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What is one of the universal hypotheses outlined by Daly et al. (1997) about kinship psychology?
What is one of the universal hypotheses outlined by Daly et al. (1997) about kinship psychology?
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'Who you are' in relation to kin is expected to be a core component of which psychological concept?
'Who you are' in relation to kin is expected to be a core component of which psychological concept?
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What is predicted to be a function of genetic relatedness?
What is predicted to be a function of genetic relatedness?
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What do kinship systems universally differentiate based on?
What do kinship systems universally differentiate based on?
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What does the study by Tanskanen & Danielsbacka (2014) support?
What does the study by Tanskanen & Danielsbacka (2014) support?
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What are people expected to be aware of despite differences in kin terms across cultures?
What are people expected to be aware of despite differences in kin terms across cultures?
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What is the technical formulation of inclusive fitness theory?
What is the technical formulation of inclusive fitness theory?
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According to Hamilton's rule, when does natural selection favor mechanisms for altruism?
According to Hamilton's rule, when does natural selection favor mechanisms for altruism?
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What does inclusive fitness theory have profound consequences for?
What does inclusive fitness theory have profound consequences for?
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What does Hamilton's rule dictate regarding altruism?
What does Hamilton's rule dictate regarding altruism?
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What is inclusive fitness calculated from?
What is inclusive fitness calculated from?
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What does kin selection theory explore?
What does kin selection theory explore?
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What does Hamilton's rule state about adaptations for aid to kin?
What does Hamilton's rule state about adaptations for aid to kin?
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What is the predicted strategic implication of inclusive fitness theory regarding the use of kinship terms?
What is the predicted strategic implication of inclusive fitness theory regarding the use of kinship terms?
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In what context are members of college fraternities and sororities known to use kinship terms?
In what context are members of college fraternities and sororities known to use kinship terms?
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What is the purpose of a panhandler using the kin term 'brother' in a request for spare change?
What is the purpose of a panhandler using the kin term 'brother' in a request for spare change?
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What does the text suggest about soldiers sharing combat in relation to kinship terms?
What does the text suggest about soldiers sharing combat in relation to kinship terms?
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What is the primary implication of using kinship terms such as 'brother' or 'sister' in social interactions?
What is the primary implication of using kinship terms such as 'brother' or 'sister' in social interactions?
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What is one hypothesis for why panhandlers use the kin term 'brother' in their requests?
What is one hypothesis for why panhandlers use the kin term 'brother' in their requests?
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What did the study of individuals from the Netherlands find about investment from full siblings compared to half siblings?
What did the study of individuals from the Netherlands find about investment from full siblings compared to half siblings?
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In which cultural context is kinship the strongest predictor of food sharing?
In which cultural context is kinship the strongest predictor of food sharing?
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What did studies of the horticulturalists of Nicaragua and the Hadza of Tanzania show about sharing food resources?
What did studies of the horticulturalists of Nicaragua and the Hadza of Tanzania show about sharing food resources?
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What did a study of the Saami reindeer herders of Norway find about the impact of genetic relatedness on herds?
What did a study of the Saami reindeer herders of Norway find about the impact of genetic relatedness on herds?
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How do people respond when their kin are verbally insulted?
How do people respond when their kin are verbally insulted?
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What did a study of the Himba, a group of seminomadic African pastoralists, find about women and kin proximity?
What did a study of the Himba, a group of seminomadic African pastoralists, find about women and kin proximity?
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What is one of the mechanisms supporting the apparent altruism of Belding’s ground squirrels?
What is one of the mechanisms supporting the apparent altruism of Belding’s ground squirrels?
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How do female ground squirrels support the parental investment and inclusive fitness hypotheses?
How do female ground squirrels support the parental investment and inclusive fitness hypotheses?
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What is a basis for recognition of kin in primates?
What is a basis for recognition of kin in primates?
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How do humans identify kin by odor?
How do humans identify kin by odor?
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What can preadolescent children correctly identify by odor?
What can preadolescent children correctly identify by odor?
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What governs all systems of kin classification according to the text?
What governs all systems of kin classification according to the text?
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What are the three innate cognitive building blocks proposed by Jones to generate terms for kin in all cultures?
What are the three innate cognitive building blocks proposed by Jones to generate terms for kin in all cultures?
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Which facial feature is especially important for kinship cues according to the text?
Which facial feature is especially important for kinship cues according to the text?
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What serves as a cue to kinship relatedness and is supported by evidence?
What serves as a cue to kinship relatedness and is supported by evidence?
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How many ways do humans have of identifying kin according to the text?
How many ways do humans have of identifying kin according to the text?
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What influences patterns of helping among women in Los Angeles according to the text?
What influences patterns of helping among women in Los Angeles according to the text?
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What is critical for solving adaptive problems such as identifying potential allies and avoiding antagonizing individuals with formidable kin?
What is critical for solving adaptive problems such as identifying potential allies and avoiding antagonizing individuals with formidable kin?
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What did the study of 11,211 South African households find regarding genetic relatedness and spending on children?
What did the study of 11,211 South African households find regarding genetic relatedness and spending on children?
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What did Burnstein and colleagues find in their study of the US and Japan regarding genetic relatedness and helping behavior?
What did Burnstein and colleagues find in their study of the US and Japan regarding genetic relatedness and helping behavior?
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What did a naturalistic study of killing among Icelandic Vikings find regarding kin network size and protection against lethal attacks?
What did a naturalistic study of killing among Icelandic Vikings find regarding kin network size and protection against lethal attacks?
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What did the study in Taiwan find regarding genetic relatedness and helping behavior?
What did the study in Taiwan find regarding genetic relatedness and helping behavior?
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What did the study of the Pimbwe population in Tanzania find regarding maternal kin network size and child health?
What did the study of the Pimbwe population in Tanzania find regarding maternal kin network size and child health?
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What did the study of killing among Icelandic Vikings find regarding kin network size and defense against dangerous predators?
What did the study of killing among Icelandic Vikings find regarding kin network size and defense against dangerous predators?
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What do the Burnstein studies demonstrate about genetic relatedness and helping?
What do the Burnstein studies demonstrate about genetic relatedness and helping?
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What did the study in Thailand find about living with kin and fertility?
What did the study in Thailand find about living with kin and fertility?
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What did the theorists propose as a psychological mediator for altruistic behavior?
What did the theorists propose as a psychological mediator for altruistic behavior?
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What did participants in the study indicate regarding emotional closeness to family members?
What did participants in the study indicate regarding emotional closeness to family members?
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What did the study by Snopkowski & Sear (2013) find about the impact of living with kin on fertility?
What did the study by Snopkowski & Sear (2013) find about the impact of living with kin on fertility?
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"Genetic relatedness predicted willingness to act altruistically" - who found this in their study?
"Genetic relatedness predicted willingness to act altruistically" - who found this in their study?
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Which grandparent is predicted to invest the least in their grandchildren?
Which grandparent is predicted to invest the least in their grandchildren?
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What did Todd DeKay's study find regarding emotional closeness to grandparents?
What did Todd DeKay's study find regarding emotional closeness to grandparents?
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What psychological indicators of investment are predicted by the hypothesis of 'discriminative grandparental investment'?
What psychological indicators of investment are predicted by the hypothesis of 'discriminative grandparental investment'?
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What pattern emerged for the two grandparents of intermediate relational uncertainty in Todd DeKay's study?
What pattern emerged for the two grandparents of intermediate relational uncertainty in Todd DeKay's study?
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What did Todd DeKay predict and find regarding infidelity rates in different generations?
What did Todd DeKay predict and find regarding infidelity rates in different generations?
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In DeKay's study, what variable did participants indicate the most emotional closeness to?
In DeKay's study, what variable did participants indicate the most emotional closeness to?
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What do studies in Germany reveal about resource allocation by men and women?
What do studies in Germany reveal about resource allocation by men and women?
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What does the theoretical predictions about grandparental investment focus on?
What does the theoretical predictions about grandparental investment focus on?
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What is marked by pride, joy, and fulfillment according to the text?
What is marked by pride, joy, and fulfillment according to the text?
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From a grandfather's perspective, what makes the blood relationships between a grandfather and his son's children the most uncertain of all grandparental relationships?
From a grandfather's perspective, what makes the blood relationships between a grandfather and his son's children the most uncertain of all grandparental relationships?
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What do older men tend to do more than older women according to the text?
What do older men tend to do more than older women according to the text?
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What are genetic relatives bequeathed more than according to the text?
What are genetic relatives bequeathed more than according to the text?
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What is the impact of close kin presence on cortisol levels in children from single-mother households?
What is the impact of close kin presence on cortisol levels in children from single-mother households?
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In life-or-death situations, how did the number of genetic relatives in the colony influence survival rates?
In life-or-death situations, how did the number of genetic relatives in the colony influence survival rates?
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How does the inheritance of wealth align with inclusive fitness theory?
How does the inheritance of wealth align with inclusive fitness theory?
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How did decedents distribute their estates among relatives sharing different percentages of genes?
How did decedents distribute their estates among relatives sharing different percentages of genes?
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What is the trend in estate distribution between children and siblings?
What is the trend in estate distribution between children and siblings?
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What is the trend in estate distribution between men and women?
What is the trend in estate distribution between men and women?
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What does the correlation between genetic relatedness and subjective closeness indicate?
What does the correlation between genetic relatedness and subjective closeness indicate?
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What is the impact of residential proximity and frequency of contact on psychological closeness?
What is the impact of residential proximity and frequency of contact on psychological closeness?
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How does the grief experienced by parents compare to less genetically close relatives when a child dies?
How does the grief experienced by parents compare to less genetically close relatives when a child dies?
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What preferences do both male and female kin of a woman express in lowland Nicaragua regarding a prospective husband?
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What did experiments reveal about people's feelings regarding infidelity with biological relatives compared to strangers?
What did experiments reveal about people's feelings regarding infidelity with biological relatives compared to strangers?
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What did Mark Flinn and colleagues monitor in children residing in a Caribbean village?
What did Mark Flinn and colleagues monitor in children residing in a Caribbean village?
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What is the predicted outcome when vacancies in breeding roles within families occur?
What is the predicted outcome when vacancies in breeding roles within families occur?
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What is the impact of having stepfathers in the home according to the text?
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What do evolutionary psychologists Jennifer Davis and Martin Daly critique regarding Emlen’s theory?
What do evolutionary psychologists Jennifer Davis and Martin Daly critique regarding Emlen’s theory?
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What may contribute to family stabilization according to the text?
What may contribute to family stabilization according to the text?
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What do post-menopausal women have little incentive to encourage according to the text?
What do post-menopausal women have little incentive to encourage according to the text?
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What does evolutionary psychology aim to provide insight into according to the text?
What does evolutionary psychology aim to provide insight into according to the text?
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According to evolutionary biologist Stephen Emlen, how does he define families?
According to evolutionary biologist Stephen Emlen, how does he define families?
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What distinguishes simple families from extended families according to Stephen Emlen?
What distinguishes simple families from extended families according to Stephen Emlen?
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What is the reproductive cost associated with remaining in the parental nest?
What is the reproductive cost associated with remaining in the parental nest?
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According to Emlen’s theory, when will families form?
According to Emlen’s theory, when will families form?
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What are the two major theories that explain the evolution of families?
What are the two major theories that explain the evolution of families?
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What does evolutionary biologist Stephen Emlen predict about the formation and breakup of families?
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What is the main factor influencing grandparents' investment in kin according to the text?
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What did a study of 285 U.S. college students find about investment tendencies of maternal and paternal aunts and uncles?
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What is the basis for the laterality effect in investment tendencies of aunts and uncles?
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What influences men and women's investment tendencies in surplus resources according to the text?
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What is the key reason behind people's greater willingness to help their mother’s sister’s (MoSis) children compared to their father’s brother’s (FaBro) children?
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What did a study find about people's expression of willingness to help cousins with different degrees of genetic relatedness?
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What was the impact of infidelity rates on grandparental investment according to the text?
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What did the grandmother hypothesis propose?
What did the grandmother hypothesis propose?
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What is the trend in relationship quality based on the text?
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What did the study of 767 individuals find regarding support for the hypothesis?
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What did the German study of 1,857 participants reveal about grandparental investment patterns?
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What was found about grief patterns when a grandchild dies based on the text?
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What did Professor Bill von Hippel propose as a competing explanation for grandparental investment?
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What might jeopardize the genetic link between grandparents, their children, and their grandchildren?
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Why are maternal grandfathers predicted to invest more in their daughter's children compared to paternal grandmothers?
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What does the hypothesis regarding paternal grandmothers' investment focus on?
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What is the alternative explanation proposed by Professor Bill von Hippel for discriminative grandparental investment?
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In certain bird species, siblings compete for food by:
In certain bird species, siblings compete for food by:
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What is a form of competition among mammalian species' siblings?
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What do parents do to generate quality screening among offspring in birds?
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What is a result of parental decisions in bird families?
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What is a form of competition described as 'scramble competition'?
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What do parents do to compensate for the uncertainty of future food supplies in bird families?
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What is a behavior observed in certain bird species that can lead to 'siblicide'?
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What is the primary cause of most sibling murders according to the text?
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What tactic do siblings use to compete for grandparental resources, as per the text?
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What does Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness offer an explanation for, as mentioned in the text?
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What fundamental sources of conflict does an evolutionary perspective on family conflict suggest?
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What kind of conflict arises from differing optimal resource allocation between the parent's and child's perspectives?
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What do adaptations likely evolve in response to, as per the text?
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What does understanding the evolutionary logic of family conflict help individuals gain perspective on, according to the text?
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What are the primary mechanisms humans use to recognize kin?
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What does the reciprocal altruism theory propose?
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What is the puzzle in natural selection, especially when altruism is not directed towards genetic relatives?
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What does empirical studies confirm about kinship and helping behavior?
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What does the special evolved psychology of kinship involve?
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What influences cooperation and kin solidarity according to the text?
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What is the primary predictor of closeness in kin relationships?
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What is the key to cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma, as demonstrated by Robert Axelrod and W. D. Hamilton?
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What poses a challenge for reciprocal altruists?
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What does the prisoner's dilemma illustrate?
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What leads to evolutionary advantages, as per the text?
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What did Axelrod and Hamilton use to show that cooperation is advantageous when the game is repeated?
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What is illustrated by the prisoner's dilemma and reciprocal altruism?
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What poses a challenge for reciprocal altruists according to the text?
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What is the primary focus of social contract theory in relation to human cognitive capacities?
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What logical inference problem illustrates human difficulty in solving logical problems?
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What was the majority response in studies regarding testing the truth value of a logical rule?
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What did more than 50 percent of college students incorrectly conclude from a given logical premise?
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What did roughly 20 percent of participants claim about drawing valid inferences from given premises?
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What does social contract theory propose as essential for successful social exchange?
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What behavior did Yeroen, the dominant male chimpanzee, exhibit after being dethroned by Luit?
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What does the social contract theory by Cosmides and Tooby aim to explain?
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What do vampire bats and chimpanzees both exhibit based on the study?
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What does the theory of simultaneous exchange being vulnerable to cheating predict?
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What does the study provide insights into?
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What do chimpanzees engage in as part of their social behavior?
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What is a key feature of the successful tit for tat strategy, as identified by Axelrod (1984)?
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What is a practical implication of the tit for tat strategy for promoting cooperation?
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What is a strategy for promoting cooperation mentioned in the text?
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What can create a runaway pattern, forcing former exploiters to become cooperators?
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What is a survival strategy of vampire bats mentioned in the text?
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What is the consequence of failure at feeding for vampire bats?
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What was the winning strategy in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma games?
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How many strategies were submitted for playing 200 rounds of the prisoner’s dilemma?
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What did the winning strategy, tit for tat, involve?
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How many points were rewarded to the winner in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma games?
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How many rounds were played in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma games?
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What was Trivers (1985)’s label for the winning strategy in the tournament?
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What did Cosmides and Tooby outline as the five cognitive capacities for evolving mechanisms to motivate social contracts and avoid cheaters?
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What is a key evolutionary advantage that cheaters have over co-operators under certain conditions?
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Where is the recognition of individuals located in humans, as mentioned in the text?
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What ability do humans possess that allows them to identify others not seen for up to 34 years, with a recognition rate of over 90 percent?
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Which cognitive capacity involves the ability to understand the values of others and tailor exchanges to maximize benefit?
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What does Cosmides and Tooby propose as essential for evolving mechanisms to motivate social contracts and avoid cheaters?
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Evolutionary Theory of Kin Selection and Inclusive Fitness
- Kin selection theory explores the idea that relatives differ in their value to an individual
- Selection favors adaptations for helping kin in proportion to their genetic relatedness
- Hamilton's rule is the technical formulation of inclusive fitness theory
- Inclusive fitness is calculated from an individual's reproductive success and their effects on the reproductive success of relatives
- Altruism, defined as incurring a cost to benefit another, can evolve under certain conditions outlined by Hamilton's rule
- Hamilton's rule states that natural selection favors mechanisms for altruism when the cost to the actor is less than the benefit to the recipient multiplied by the degree of genetic relatedness
- The rule dictates that individuals should incur costs (be altruistic) if the benefits to a 0.50 kin member are more than twice the costs to the actor, and so on
- Hamilton's rule defines the conditions under which adaptations for aid to kin can evolve, it is not a psychological theory
- Traits that violate Hamilton's rule will be selected against, only those that fulfill the rule can spread throughout the population
- Inclusive fitness theory has profound consequences for topics such as cooperation, conflict, risk-taking, inheritance of wealth, and grieving
- Before the theory of inclusive fitness, altruism appeared to go against an individual's personal fitness, posing a puzzle
- The theory of inclusive fitness is considered the single most important theoretical revision of Darwin's theory of natural selection in the past century
Evolutionary Psychology and Kinship
- A study of 11,211 South African households found that genetic relatedness predicted spending on children's food, health care, and clothing.
- The size of the maternal kin network in the Pimbwe, a Tanzanian population, correlated with the health and mortality rate of children.
- Inclusive fitness theory predicted that helping others is influenced by genetic relatedness and the recipient's ability to enhance the helper's inclusive fitness.
- Helping decreases as genetic relatedness decreases, with the most help given to siblings and the least to first cousins.
- Helping also decreases with the age of the recipient, with younger relatives receiving more aid than older ones.
- Burnstein and colleagues studied the US and Japan and found that helping decreased as genetic relatedness decreased, especially in life-or-death scenarios.
- A study in Taiwan also found that genetic relatedness predicted helping, with more help given to genetic relatives with higher reproductive value.
- A naturalistic study of killing among Icelandic Vikings found that having a larger kin network offered protection against lethal attacks from other groups.
- Genetic relatedness predicted helping in extraordinary or life-threatening situations, such as defending against dangerous predators.
- People gave more help to siblings than mates and friends as the cost of help escalated, despite feeling emotionally closer to the latter.
- Kinship plays a significant role in altruistic behavior, with genetic relatedness and reproductive value influencing the level of help given.
- Cultural and geographical differences in helping behavior were observed, with similar patterns of altruism found in the US, Japan, Taiwan, and among Icelandic Vikings.
Evolutionary Psychology and Kinship
- Emotional closeness is statistically mediated by genetic relatedness, leading to altruistic behavior towards family members.
- A study of 1,365 participants in Germany and other research consistently support the correlation between genetic relatedness and subjective closeness.
- Genetic relatedness strongly predicts subjective closeness, with a correlation of +.50.
- Psychological closeness is robust even when controlling for variables like residential proximity and frequency of contact.
- The frequency of contact and doing favors are linked to genetic relatedness, with full siblings having more frequent contact and receiving more favors.
- Parents experience more grief than less genetically close relatives when a child dies.
- Individuals are more vigilant over the mating relationships of close kin and female kin, as supported by a study using three dependent measures.
- In lowland Nicaragua, both male and female kin of a woman express strong preferences for a wealthy and skilled prospective husband.
- A kin hypothesis regarding subjective distress from infidelity was refuted by two experiments, with people reporting feeling worse if their partner cheated with a biological relative than with a stranger.
- Stressful situations cause the release of the hormone cortisol, which can inhibit growth and hinder reproductive function.
- Prolonged stress can damage body organs and reproductive functioning.
- Mark Flinn and colleagues monitored cortisol levels in children residing in a Caribbean village through saliva samples.
Grandparental Investment Hypothesis and its Supporting Studies
- Hypothesis: Paternal grandmothers allocate fewer resources than maternal grandfathers only when paternal grandmothers have daughters, not sons.
- Preliminary support: Study of 767 individuals found evidence for the hypothesis, while a smaller sample study failed to find support.
- German study: Examined 1,857 participants and found similar patterns of grandparental investment as the U.S. study.
- Maternal grandmothers: Viewed as having the most "gekummert" (cared for), while paternal grandfathers were viewed as having the least.
- Investment patterns: Maternal grandfathers invested more than paternal grandmothers, contradicting the general expectation of a sex difference in investment.
- Replicated patterns: Similar grandparental investment patterns found in Greece, France, Germany, and among older grandparents in the United States.
- Grief patterns: Maternal grandmothers grieve the most, paternal grandfathers grieve the least when a grandchild dies.
- Relationship quality: Generally, people have the best relationship with their maternal grandmother and the least good relationship with their paternal grandfather.
- Frequent contact: Maternal grandmothers maintain more frequent face-to-face contact with grandchildren than paternal grandfathers or grandmothers.
- Maternal grandmother's investment: Found to make a difference in the survival of grandchildren, supported by a meta-analysis of 17 studies.
- Grandmother hypothesis: Suggests that women evolved a long post-menopausal lifespan due to grandparental investment increasing their inclusive fitness.
- Remaining questions: The impact of infidelity rates on grandparental investment and whether grandparents monitor the likelihood of cuckoldry and adjust their investment.
Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism and the Prisoner's Dilemma
- Reciprocal altruism benefits both parties, creating a win-win situation.
- Two hunters, facing erratic hunting success, engage in reciprocal altruism by sharing meat to balance out their fortunes.
- Reciprocal altruism involves a small cost to the giver, but provides a larger benefit to the receiver, resulting in mutual gains.
- Reciprocal altruism leads to evolutionary advantages, as those who engage in it tend to out-reproduce selfish individuals.
- The problem of cheating poses a challenge for reciprocal altruists, as it involves ensuring that benefits will be returned in the future.
- The prisoner's dilemma is a hypothetical situation that illustrates the challenge of cooperation and the temptation to defect for personal gain.
- The prisoner's dilemma presents a rational course of action for both prisoners to confess, despite cooperation yielding the best outcome for both.
- The prisoner's dilemma resembles the problem of reciprocal altruism, where individuals are tempted to gain benefits without reciprocating.
- Robert Axelrod and W. D. Hamilton demonstrated that the key to cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma occurs when the game is repeated over time.
- Cooperation becomes viable when the game is repeated, but players do not know when it will end, reflecting real-life scenarios.
- Axelrod and Hamilton's tournament used a payoff matrix to show that cooperation is advantageous when the game is repeated.
- The payoff matrix used in the tournament is defined by specific relationships between the rewards and penalties, demonstrating the evolution of cooperation.
Cooperation Strategies and Examples in Non-Human Species
- Axelrod (1984) identified three key features of the successful tit for tat strategy: never be the first to defect, retaliate only after the other has defected, and be forgiving.
- The tit for tat strategy encourages cooperation, as demonstrated in a computer tournament, and has practical implications for promoting cooperation.
- Strategies for promoting cooperation include enlarging the shadow of the future, teaching reciprocity, insisting on equity, responding quickly to provocation, and cultivating a personal reputation as a reciprocator.
- Cooperation can create a runaway pattern, forcing former exploiters to become cooperators.
- Different species can arrive at similar solutions to common adaptive problems, such as cooperation.
- Vampire bats survive by regurgitating blood to their friends in the colony, especially those from whom they have received blood in the past.
- Wilkinson (1984) found that the closer the association between bats, the more likely they were to give blood to each other.
- Vampire bats live in groups of up to a dozen adult females and their offspring, while the males leave the colony when they are capable of independence.
- Vampire bats hide during the day and emerge at night to feed on the blood of cattle and horses.
- Failure at feeding can lead to death, as bats can only go without blood for 3 days.
- 33% of younger bats (under 2 years old) failed to get blood on any particular evening, while only 7% of bats older than 2 years failed to feed.
- The study of vampire bats' food sharing behavior provides insights into cooperation among non-human species.
Evolution of Cooperation: Cognitive Capacities and Social Contracts
- Cheaters have an evolutionary advantage over co-operators under certain conditions
- Reciprocal altruism can evolve if organisms can detect and avoid cheaters
- Cosmides and Tooby (1992) outlined five cognitive capacities for evolving mechanisms to motivate social contracts and avoid cheaters
- Capacity 1: Ability to recognize many different individuals, supported by scientific evidence
- Capacity 2: Ability to remember interaction histories and keep track of owed obligations
- Capacity 3: Ability to communicate one's values to others, illustrated by nonverbal chimp communication and human language
- Capacity 4: Ability to understand the values of others and tailor exchanges to maximize benefit
- Capacity 5: Ability to represent costs and benefits of exchanges, independent of specific items exchanged
- Humans have evolved proficient ability to recognize many different individuals
- Humans can identify others not seen for up to 34 years, with a recognition rate of over 90 percent
- Recognition of individuals is located in a specific area of the brain
- Humans are good at recognizing others solely by the way they walk
Evolution of Altruism and Cooperation
- Prosocial signalers are sought after as cooperative hunting partners, indicating that generosity signaling is linked to the evolution of altruism.
- Altruists tend to preferentially associate and socialize with each other, enhancing the benefits of altruism.
- Several theories explain the evolutionary puzzle of altruism, including inclusive fitness, reciprocal altruism, and costly signaling.
- Positive assortment is a potential unifying principle underlying different forms of benefit delivery and cooperation.
- Emotions, such as gratitude, play a significant role in altruism and cooperation, influencing future interactions and levels of cooperation.
- Evolutionary psychologist Gary Brase explored the emotions involved in reciprocity, finding that gratitude and anger are directed towards those who help or fail to help.
- Tooby and Cosmides suggest that friendships may not be solely based on explicit reciprocity, as people report feeling pleasure in helping others without expecting a future reward.
- Immediate reciprocal exchange orientation in a marriage is linked with marital dissatisfaction and potential dissolution, suggesting that friendships may not be solely based on reciprocal exchange.
- People's intuitions provide a cue that friendships might not solely be based on reciprocal exchange, according to Tooby and Cosmides.
- Altruism through costly signaling enhances a person's status and reputation, increasing the odds of being chosen as a cooperation partner.
- Altruists have a high disposition towards altruism and preferentially associate with others who possess similar altruistic values.
- Positive assortment, associating with some individuals and not others, may provide a unifying principle underlying different forms of benefit delivery and cooperation.
Evolution of Altruism and Banker’s Paradox in Group Living
- According to classical theories of evolution of altruism, an act is not defined as altruism if no additional cost is incurred, but common sense suggests delivering a benefit to others is altruistic regardless of cost.
- Evolutionary perspective suggests that the greater the cost of delivering benefits to others, the less widespread the benefits will be, and vice versa.
- Bankers face the "banker’s paradox" where they loan money to those who need it the least, while refusing those who need it the most, similar to the adaptive problem faced by our ancestors.
- Ancestral people had to make critical decisions about whom to extend help to, similar to bankers' decisions about extending credit to individuals.
- Adaptations regulated crucial decisions by evaluating a person's willingness and ability to repay, and whether helping this person is the best use of limited capacity to help.
- Selection should favor adaptations that motivate good decisions about when and to whom to extend help, but evolution should favor psychological mechanisms that cause people to desert others when they need help.
- Tooby and Cosmides propose a solution to the adaptive problem: becoming irreplaceable or indispensable to others.
- Irreplaceable individuals are less vulnerable to desertion and loyalty of friendship should be based on how irreplaceable each friend has become.
- Strategies to become irreplaceable include being the sole provider of certain benefits and making oneself valuable in a unique way.
- The hypothetical example of having to choose between two friends in need of assistance illustrates the concept of irreplaceability influencing the decision.
- The loyalty of friendship is influenced by how irreplaceable each friend has become, according to the proposed reasoning.
- Tooby and Cosmides outline several strategies to increase the odds of becoming irreplaceable.
Evolutionary Psychology of Friendship and Cooperative Coalitions
- Same-sex friends tend to have similar interests, personalities, and levels of attractiveness, leading to intrasexual rivalry for mates.
- Men report more frequent intrasexual rivalry in same-sex friendships than women, likely due to men's greater desire for short-term casual sex.
- Women's friendships are more intimate and involve more relational maintenance, while men prefer a larger number of less intimate friendships.
- Women historically relied heavily on non-kin women for a secure social environment, leading to close intimate friendships.
- Men use friendships to achieve common goals such as cooperative hunting, defense, or warfare, reflecting gender differences in the evolved functions of friendship.
- Humans form cooperative coalitions for collective action, such as hunting, food sharing, raiding, defending, and building shelters.
- Cooperative coalitions face problems of defection and free-riding, which can undermine their success.
- Defection occurs when individuals claim illness or injury to avoid participating in coalition activities, jeopardizing the coalition's success.
- Free-riders share in the rewards of the coalition without contributing their fair share of work, posing another problem.
- Game theory analyses show that cooperative coalitions can collapse due to defection and free-riding.
- Evolutionists focus on the role of punishment in solving the free-rider problem, with experiments showing higher levels of cooperation when free-riders are punished.
- There is evidence that humans have adaptations to punish free-riders in the context of cooperative coalitions, leading to high levels of cooperation when stringent punishments are in place.
Emergence of Dominance Hierarchies in Animals
- A study of 59 three-person groups found that clear hierarchies emerged within 1 minute in 50% and within 5 minutes in the other 50%.
- Group members can accurately evaluate their future status within a new group before any interaction.
- Crickets remember their fight history and adjust their behavior based on past successes and failures.
- Dominance hierarchy emerges in crickets, with victorious males more likely to seek sex from females.
- The phrase "pecking order" comes from the behavior of hens, where a stable hierarchy benefits both dominant and subordinate hens.
- Dominance hierarchy is an emergent property of the group, not the individual, and has functions for both dominant and subordinate individuals.
- Assessment abilities evolve for individuals to determine the outcome of confrontations in advance.
- Dominance hierarchy refers to some individuals having greater access to key resources than others, contributing to survival and reproduction.
- More than one male crayfish cannot inhabit the same territory without determining dominance through violent confrontations.
- Researchers discovered a specific neuron in crayfish that responds differently to serotonin based on the animal's status.
- Changes in nervous systems occur in dominant and subordinate animals after confrontations.
- One battle rarely determines a permanent position as dominant or subordinate in animals.
Evolution of Social Hierarchy and Status
- Traditional societies use ridicule, ostracism, and even homicide to deter individuals striving for dominance.
- A theory should explain why people strive for equality and differentiate between dominance and production hierarchies.
- Dominance involves force or the threat of force, while prestige is freely conferred deference based on skills or knowledge.
- Prestige hierarchies are domain specific, with different skills evoking deference in different contexts.
- Competence, including fighting ability and leadership skills, is proposed as the key to status.
- Costly signaling plays a key role in the acquisition of prestige, with individuals displaying competence and generosity to acquire prestige.
- Public displays of generosity lead to a boost in social reputation, while reputation is so important that people are willing to suffer huge costs to avoid a bad reputation.
- Individuals are willing to endure significant sacrifices to maintain a positive reputation, as shown in studies where participants chose to avoid a bad reputation at great personal cost.
- Reputation and status are of prime importance in the human mind, as shown by the choices people make to protect their reputation.
- Status and reputation are crucial in traditional societies, where individuals use costly signaling and public displays of competence and generosity to acquire prestige.
- Evolutionary theories should account for the different paths to elevated rank or status, including dominance and prestige, and the importance of competence in acquiring status.
- Prestige is acquired through public displays of competence and generosity, leading to a boost in social reputation, while individuals are willing to endure significant personal sacrifices to maintain a positive reputation.
Men's Status and Reproductive Success
- A meta-analysis of 33 non-industrial populations showed that men's status was positively correlated with various reproductively relevant outcomes, such as having more wives, higher fertility rates, and more surviving offspring.
- In polygamous societies, higher-status men had more wives and lower offspring mortality, while in monogamous societies, they married younger wives.
- The linkage between status and mating success held regardless of cultural subsistence patterns, such as agriculture, foraging, horticulture, or pastoralism.
- In modern cultures with legally enforced monogamy, high-status men still have greater sexual access to more women, through short-term relationships, extramarital affairs, and serial marriages.
- High-status men tend to have more frequent sex, more children, and marry physically attractive and younger women.
- Men in high-status positions within universities, businesses, and academia tend to have more children.
- High-status men historically and cross-culturally gain sexual access to multiple women, suggesting a strong selective pressure for a status-striving motive in men.
- Boys across different cultures are more likely than girls to engage in rough-and-tumble play, assaults, aggression, dominance challenges, and seeking attention.
- Girls tend to display nurturance and pleasing sociability more than boys.
- Evidence suggests that a sex difference in dominance motivation emerges at an early age, with boys showing higher aggressiveness, competitive striving, and desire for status.
- Research on social dominance orientation (SDO) shows that individuals high on this orientation endorse an ideology involving the legitimacy of one group's domination over another.
- This evidence suggests that men are generally higher in dominance or status striving compared to women.
Leadership, Prestige, and Social Dominance
- Leaders provide key services to followers in the form of organizational skills, intelligence, wisdom, and knowledge in relevant domains.
- These leader-provided services benefit followers by producing better outcomes for them, such as success in hunting, defense, warfare, or habitat selection.
- In return for the services, followers provide leaders with social prestige, which gains them better access to resources, including desirable mates.
- The service-for-prestige theory is based on reciprocal altruism and followers incur costs by bestowing leaders with prestige and status.
- Ancestrally, the costs involved ceding a larger share of key reproductively relevant resources to the leader.
- Qualities sought in leaders depend on adaptive problems, such as athletic ability, strength, skill in weapon use, and displays of courage for hunting and warfare.
- Intelligence, good social skills, oratory skills, and the ability to unify the group toward a common goal are valuable leadership qualities across wartime and peacetime contexts.
- One quality often sought in leaders is fairness, which has different definitions including equity and equality.
- The services-for-prestige theory predicts which followers will want leaders who adopt each definition of fairness based on their contributions to the group.
- Both leaders and followers benefit from the reciprocal exchange of services for prestige.
- Men and women differ in the extent to which their reproductive outputs can vary due to the abundance of sperm and the obligation of males to invest heavily in their offspring.
- Research has identified three major tactics for getting ahead in status hierarchies: deception/manipulation, social display/networking, and industriousness/knowledge. Men are more likely than women to use the deception/manipulation tactic.
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Explore the evolutionary theory of kin selection and inclusive fitness, including Hamilton's rule, altruism, and its consequences for cooperation and conflict.