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

Humans present a behavioural paradox: they are peaceful in many circumstances, but they
are also violent and kill conspecifics at high rates. We describe a social evolutionary theory …

Researchers argue that third parties help sustain human cooperation, yet how they
contribute remains unclear, especially in small-scale, politically decentralized societies …

Why do people share or publicly engage with fake stories? Two possible answers come to
mind:(a) people are deeply irrational and believe these stories to be true; or (b) they intend …

Researchers investigating the evolution of human aggression look to our closest living
relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), as valuable sources …

Altered neural crest cell (NCC) behaviour is an increasingly cited explanation for the
domestication syndrome in animals. However, recent authors have questioned this …

Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the
maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative …

Domestication is often portrayed as a long-past event, at times even in archaeological
literature. The term domestication is also now applied to other processes, including human …

Microeconomic modelling offers a powerful formal toolbox for analysing the complexities of
real-world intergroup relations and conflicts. One important class of models scrutinizes …

The speciation process that led to the separation of bonobos (Pan paniscus) from
chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) is estimated to have begun between 0.8 and 2.6 million years …