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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"evolutionary anthropology"”.
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Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
… on work from psychology, political science, and evolutionary anthropology, I argue that an adequate explanation of political disagreement must emphasize two features of human psychology: tribalism and motivated reasoning.</p><p>It is often assumed that disagreements rooted in bias and …
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The Design And Development Of A Comprehensive 49 Locus Y-str Database For Major U.S. Populations
… and is maintained by the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. However, this database has been limited to a set of 9 core Y-STRs, limiting its operational usefulness, particularly in light of the development of novel Y-STR multiplexes consisting of additional loci. A …
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Firms and the Evolution of Culture and Cooperation
… Evolution to develop a foundation for the evolutionary origins of firms. In extant theory, a historically rooted explanation for the evolution of firms is largely absent. I argue that Cultural Evolution theory can address this challenge, putting knowledge, learning, and cooperation at …
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Invisible Etruscans: a study on rural landscape and settlement organisation during the urbanisation of Etruria (7th - 5th centuries BC)
… of Etruscan polities. These models, tied to the evolutionary anthropology and processual archaeology traditions, will be then completed with relatively new social anthropological studies on state formation and urbanisation, which have been only recently applied to Central Italian urbanisation. …
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
… this key process is therefore important from an evolutionary perspective. Iconic labels roughly doubled origami production success, likely by supporting cognitive processes such as visual perception and aspects of goal directed behaviour. Experiment 5 used real knapping to corroborate origami …