Social influence is distributed unequally between males and females in many mammalian
societies. In human societies, gender inequality is particularly evident in access to …

Personality is essential for understanding the evolution of cooperation and conflict in
behavior. However, personality science remains disconnected from the field of social …

Many researchers have turned to evolutionary theory to better understand diversity in
leadership. Evolutionary theories of leadership, in turn, draw on ethnographic cases of …

To address claims of human exceptionalism, we determine where humans fit within the
greater mammalian distribution of reproductive inequality. We show that humans exhibit …

Inequality is increasingly recognized as a major problem in contemporary society. The
causes and consequences of inequality in wealth and power have long been central …

People everywhere acquire high levels of conceptual knowledge about their social and
natural worlds, which we refer to as ethnoscientific expertise. Evolutionary explanations for …

Natural selection will favor male care when males have limited alternative mating
opportunities, can invest in their own offspring, and when care enhances males' fitness …

Political philosophers have long drawn explicitly or implicitly on claims about the ways in
which human behaviour is shaped by interactions within society. These claims have usually …

The lower female competitiveness often found in economic experiments presents a puzzle. If
accumulating wealth and reaching high status affords women essential benefits for …

It is generally recognized that paternal care is a facultative feature of human cooperative
caregiving that helps underpin our evolved life history strategy. Yet, little direct evidence …