- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
Institute of Zoology
2022-2024
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2022-2024
Traditional norms of human societies in rural China may have changed owing to population expansion, rapid development the tourism economy and globalization since 1990s; people from different ethnic groups might adopt cultural traits outside their group or lose own culture at rates. Human behavioural ecology can help explain adoption outgroup values. We compared four values, specifically speaking languages/mother tongue wearing jeans, two co-residing groups, Mosuo Han. Both are learning...
Abstract According to Hamilton's rule, matrilineal-biased investment restrains men in matrilineal societies from maximising their inclusive fitness (the ‘matrilineal puzzle'). A recent hypothesis argues that when women breed communally and share household resources, a man should help his sisters' household, rather than wife's as the later but not former would be diluted by other unrelated members (Wu et al., 2013). this hypothesis, is less likely on farm there are more reproducing because...