A5021701961- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Language and cultural evolution
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Human Health and Disease
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
University College London
2020-2023
Zhejiang Yuexiu University
2023
Université de Toulouse
2021
Abstract An accurate reconstruction of Sino-Tibetan language evolution would greatly advance our understanding East Asian population history. Two recent phylogenetic studies attempted to do so but several their conclusions are different from each other. Here we reconstruct the phylogeny family, using Bayesian computational methods applied a larger and linguistically more diverse sample. Our results confirm previous work in finding that ancestral Sino-Tibetans first split into Sinitic...
The influence of inclusive fitness interests on the evolution human institutions remains unclear. Religious celibacy constitutes an especially puzzling institution, often deemed maladaptive. Here, we present sociodemographic data from agropastoralist Buddhist population in western China, where parents sometimes sent a son to monastery. We find that men with monk brother father more children, and grandparents have grandchildren, suggesting practice is adaptive. develop model elucidate costs...
Purpose Deliberate practice, an iterative process, has garnered increasing attention of researchers and practitioners in entrepreneurship business domains the recent years. However, research studies are on rise that found its positive correlates with superior performance. Nevertheless, whether relationship always holds is intriguing question wedged authors’ to probe causal mechanism might scrutinize association otherwise. The purpose study build social cognitive theory attribution project...
The origin of tone, also known as tonogenesis , has long been a topic great interest in language evolution and human cognition studies. Several linguistic studies tonal languages have proposed various hypotheses that may be related to different changes phonological structures. However, such not quantitatively tested an evolutionary framework. Here, we conducted phylogenetic comparative analyses assess the likelihood tonogenetic mechanisms across 106 Sino-Tibetan languages, which...
The influence of inclusive fitness interests on the evolution human institutions remains unclear. Religious celibacy constitutes an especially puzzling institution, often deemed maladaptive. Here, we present sociodemographic data from agropastoralist Buddhist population in western China, where parents sometimes sent a son to monastery. We find that men with monk brother father more children, and grandparents have grandchildren, suggesting practice is adaptive. develop model elucidate costs...
Human culture changes over time and varies across space. Two main approaches to study cultural evolution have developed in the last fifty years: human behavioural ecology a suite of perspectives centred on role transmission. The latter are often confusingly referred with name phenomenon they trying explain, ‘cultural evolution’. We argue that this is unhelpful generating confusion, including claim disregards evolution. aim explain behaviours, vast majority them at least some extent cultural....
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