Headmen, shamans, and mothers: Natural and sexual selection for computational services

EH Hagen, ZH Garfield, AD Lightner - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2025 - Elsevier
Computer engineers face a dilemma. They must build systems with sufficient resources to
solve the most complex problems the systems are expected to solve, but the systems will …

Religious systems evolving

BG Purzycki, R Sosis - Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We thank the commentators for their generous discussions and insights on Religion
Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics (Purzycki & Sosis, 2022). It has been …

Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins

R Kundt, M Lang - Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We are grateful to all commentators for their engagement with our article and insightful
comments. Though generous, the target article's word limit was quite constraining for our …

Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions

AD Lightner - Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Lang and Kundt (L&K) compile an impressive range of evidence to explain the human
evolution of ritual behavior and I commend them for this project. One of the greatest …

A Comprehensive Machine Learning Approach for EOR Screening in Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs

A Fernandez Moncada, EW Al-Shalabi… - Abu Dhabi …, 2024 - onepetro.org
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) screening is a process that allows the selection of the best
EOR technique for boosting oil recovery from specific reservoirs based on several criteria …

Adaptive narratives and fantastical falsehoods?

AD Lightner - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
Johnson et al. make a strong case for Conviction Narrative Theory, but it remains unclear
why so many adaptive narratives include supernatural causes and other falsehoods …

On Lightner & Hagen's Bias/Variance Intellectualism in the Theory of Religion

M Stehberger - Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2024 - brill.com
Intellectualism in the theory of religion deserves to be rehabilitated indeed, but a focus on
the bias-variance tradeoff, as recently proposed by Aaron Lightner and Edward Hagen, does …