Many researchers assume that until 10–12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile, relatively egalitarian bands. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” suffuses the social sciences. It …
Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non- relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …
M Singh - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018 - cambridge.org
Shamans, including medicine men, mediums, and the prophets of religious movements, recur across human societies. Shamanism also existed among nearly all documented …
As biological and linguistic diversity, the world's cultural diversity is on decline. However, to date there are no estimates of the rate at which the specific cultural traits of a group …
Recent studies of the evolution of religion have revealed the cognitive underpinnings of belief in supernatural agents, the role of ritual in promoting cooperation, and the contribution …
DH Parks, T Mankowski, S Zangooei, MS Porter… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
GenGIS is free and open source software designed to integrate biodiversity data with a digital map and information about geography and habitat. While originally developed with …
Grupos falantes de línguas da família Tupi-Guarani estavam espalhados por vastas regiões da América do Sul na época da chegada dos europeus. Durante décadas, especulou-se …
LD Michael, N Chousou-Polydouri, K Bartolomei… - Liames, 2015 - escholarship.org
This paper presents an internal classification of Tupí-Guaraní based on a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of lexical data from 30 Tupí-Guaraní languages and 2 non-Tupí …
Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of …