Primate mating patterns
Ecology, diet, competition, and ease of movement all affect the size of primate groups. The structure of primate groups is primarily affected by the mating s...
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Neandertal anti-defamation files, 17
Let no one say that I’m an uncritical voice about the many advantages of releasing preprints. They do have their downsides. Lack of editing is one.
The real "junk" DNA
Let me be honest: when I started doing paleoanthropology, I really did not expect I’d be talking about Neandertal penises.
Mental mismatches
A Primate of Modern Aspect (“The sexuality wars, featuring apes”) writes about some of the reactions to the new book, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of...
"Naughty Neandertals" did what?
Gretchen found this one:
For maximum fertility, marry more than 20 km from your birthplace
Labouriau and Amorim (2008) show that women have more children if they were born farther from their husbands:
Third and fourth cousin marriages more fertile
At least, in Iceland. Jeanna Bryner's story tickles the "ick" factor and does a fairly good job of explaining the study by Anna Helgason and colleagues, rep...
Seeing red
André Fernandez and Molly Morris have an interesting paper in American Naturalist examining the effect of color vision in primates as a bias toward t...
Here's to you, Mrs. Chimpinson
Muller and colleagues (2006) found that male chimpanzees approach older females more often for copulation (compared to younger females), more males tend to ...
Buller on mating preferences
Chapter 5 of David Buller's Adapting Minds : Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature is mostly about the critique of studies that ...