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November 2018

Volume 39, Issue 6

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Why hide? Concealed sex in dominant Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps) in the wild

Yitzchak Ben Mocha, Roger Mundry, Simone Pika

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.05.009

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xStriking uniformity exists in humans' preference to conceal sexual activity from conspecifics' view. Yet, little is known about the selective pressures acting upon its evolution. To investigate this question, we studied the cooperatively breeding Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps), which has been suggested being the only other species where dominant individuals conceal sex regularly. We examined whether birds indeed conceal sex and tested different hypotheses postulating that sex concealment functions to avoid predators, signal dominance status, or to avoid social interference.

Every rose has its thorn: Infants' responses to pointed shapes in naturalistic contexts

Aleksandra Włodarczyk, Claudia Elsner, Alexandra Schmitterer, Annie E. Wertz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.001

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xPlants produce dangerous chemical and physical defenses that have shaped the physiology and behavior of the herbivorous predators that feed on them. Here we explore the impact that these plant defenses may have had on humans by testing infants' responses to plants with and without sharp-looking thorns. To do this, we presented 8- to 18-month-olds with plants and control stimuli and measured their initial reaching behavior and subsequent object exploration behavior. Half of the stimuli had sharp-looking thorns or pointed parts while the other half did not.

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Jiří C. Moravec, Quentin Atkinson, Claire Bowern, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Robert M. Ross, Russell Gray, Stephen Marsland, Murray P. Cox

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.002

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xWhere a newly-married couple lives, termed post-marital residence, varies cross-culturally and changes over time. While many factors have been proposed as drivers of this change, among them general features of human societies like warfare, migration and gendered division of subsistence labour, little is known about whether changes in residence patterns exhibit global regularities. Here, we study ethnographic observations of post-marital residence in societies from five large language families (Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European, Pama-Nyungan and Uto-Aztecan), encompassing 371 ethnolinguistic groups ranging widely in local ecologies and lifeways, and covering over half the world's population and geographical area.

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