Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-05DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106718
Christine A. Caldwell
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106709
Jonathan Egeland
The ecological approach to culture extends the inclusive fitness tradition by proposing that cultural phenomena are best understood as extended phenotypes of producers aiming to maximize the replication of their genes. An important implication of this view is that cultural evolution can be modeled using traditional concepts from ecology, without positing a separate system of inheritance. This article presents a challenge to the ecological approach. If we take the gene's-eye view of evolution seriously, then we also have reason to believe that cultural phenomena may evolve by their own system of inheritance, since both positions are motivated by their ability to answer the beneficiary question from evolutionary biology.
{"title":"Cultural evolution and the beneficiary question","authors":"Jonathan Egeland","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ecological approach to culture extends the inclusive fitness tradition by proposing that cultural phenomena are best understood as extended phenotypes of producers aiming to maximize the replication of their genes. An important implication of this view is that cultural evolution can be modeled using traditional concepts from ecology, without positing a separate system of inheritance. This article presents a challenge to the ecological approach. If we take the gene's-eye view of evolution seriously, then we also have reason to believe that cultural phenomena may evolve by their own system of inheritance, since both positions are motivated by their ability to answer the beneficiary question from evolutionary biology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 4","pages":"Article 106709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106708
Mioko Sudo , Mitsuhiko Ishikawa
Given finite resources in developing and maintaining social relationships, humans have likely evolved to prioritize investing in individuals with high association value, or those who provide the greatest net benefits in mutual interaction. While it is well established that similarity guides affiliative judgments, it remains unclear which types of similarity provide a meaningful foundation for effective social partnerships and thus signal higher association value. The current study aimed to investigate (1) how children weigh the importance of shared social category and shared preferences as cues to potential social partnerships, and (2) whether the weight that children place on shared preferences depends on their rarity. We assessed third-party friendship inferences in 106 children (ages 4 to 12) in Japan by having them predict friendships between characters based on their gender and preferences. Children privileged shared preferences over shared gender, predicting that a character would be friends with an other-gender character who shared their preference than a same-gender character who did not. Further, this tendency to prioritize shared preferences was slightly stronger when the preferences were rare rather than common. When multiple types of similarity cues are available, it may be adaptive to select social partners based on unique similarities which signal that the individual offers irreplaceable benefits that are not easily supplied by others.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106706
Mingxuan Zhao , Frankie T.K. Fong , Andrew Whiten , Mark Nielsen
Rituals are deeply ingrained in human lives and play significant roles from a young age. Children demonstrate a remarkable willingness to faithfully copy rituals, however, limited studies have examined whether this extends to situations involving material costs. This study builds on this literature by examining how children respond to matching ritual versus ordinary actions when imitation involves varying material costs. A total of 130 children aged 4 to 7 were shown two distinct methods to acquire stickers at a local science museum: one involving causally irrelevant ritualistic actions and the other, instrumentally functional actions. Both methods resulted in giving up the opportunity to win more stickers. Results showed that children prioritised copying rituals over functional actions, even at a material cost. However, while children faithfully replicated relevant action components, they reproduced both irrelevant ritual and functional actions at lower rates. We conclude that while children are strongly inclined to learn culturally important rituals, they are ultimately strategic imitators.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106691
Polly Wiessner
The ecological approach to culture is most welcome as a theory that encompasses cultural legacies, environmental conditions and the role of actors in driving change, aligning cultural evolution with ecological theory across species. However, because culture is inherently shared, complex factors in the social environment must be considered. Some of these are outlined here. Importantly, approaching culture from an ecological perspective – as phenotypic expressions generated by cognitive adaptations to achieve fitness-enhancing social and environmental goals – has the potential to address questions that theories of social learning and transmission alone cannot: why some cultural innovations proliferate while others misfire, why some thrive and later collapse, and why still others endure and go on to form the stuff of cumulative culture.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106707
Milena Vásquez-Amézquita , Andrés Castellanos-Chacón , Wendy Medina-Sarmiento , Valentina Cepeda , Marina Begoña Martínez-González , Juan David Leongómez
Women's preferences for facial masculinity in men are influenced by individual and socio-contextual factors that help balance costs-benefits in pursuit of well-being. This study explored how Colombian women's preferences for masculinized male faces are influenced by relationship context and resource availability, as well as their individual experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using a forced-choice paradigm with eye-tracking, we assessed visual attention and face-choice in 293 cisgender heterosexual Colombian women recruited through social media adverts. Participants were assigned to either a high or low resource availability condition and selected preferred partners for short- and long-term relationships. Self-reported IPV experiences were also collected. Results revealed a strong preference for masculine faces in both relationship contexts, with higher preference in long-term scenarios and under low resource availability. However, higher frequencies of physical IPV predicted a lower preference for masculinity, particularly in long-term and high-resource contexts. These exploratory findings suggest that while Colombian women generally favor masculine traits, socio-contextual factors, such as resource availability and IPV experiences, significantly modulate these preferences. The study highlights the complex interplay between individual, evolutionary, and socio-ecological factors in shaping mate preferences, suggesting that masculinity is valued depending on relationship goals, resource conditions, and individual experiences like IPV.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106695
Dor Shilton , Aniruddh D. Patel , Kim Hill , Chris von Rueden
Current prominent music evolution theories suggest music evolved as a participatory group activity, whose adaptive functions were strengthening and/or signaling social cohesion. However, the prevalence of collective music-making varies substantially across societies, and in some cases is exceptionally rare. Here, we consider hypotheses for three factors which could attenuate collective music-making: diminished collective action more generally, an emphasis on musical expertise, and solo-oriented musical styles. We examine data related to these hypotheses in four societies in which collective music-making is rare: the Tsimane of lowland Bolivia, the Ache of eastern Paraguay, the Ayoreo of Bolivia and Paraguay, and the Tuvans of the Russian Republic of Tyva. Our results suggest that the scale and religiosity of collective action are the most important factors related to the overall degree of collective music-making in these cultures. The effect of musical expertise was mostly limited to the dominance of shamans in religious contexts, while well-developed solo musical styles did not necessarily prevent group performance in other social settings. We also note the importance of cultural loss due to influence of invading colonial and imperial forces in diminishing indigenous forms of collective music-making. Notably, in all the cases we consider, episodes of some form of collective music-making do (or historically did) occur during important social events, a fact which supports the group-functionalist view. Our findings also point to the centrality and ubiquity of the religious function of music, and suggest this aspect of musical behavior needs to be better addressed by evolutionary theories of music.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106694
Kaitlyn T. Harper, Brendan P. Zietsch
Mate preferences are ideals or standards believed to guide mate choice, which is crucial to an individual's inclusive fitness. In evolutionary psychology, many mate preferences are theorised to have evolved because choosing a partner with the preferred trait offers inclusive fitness benefits. This evolutionary logic assumes that individuals mate with partners whose traits align with their preferences. However, studies often fail to find an association between preferences and actual mate choices. Recent theoretical work suggests that the more preferences used to evaluate potential partners, the weaker this association becomes. These findings raise questions about the conventional view that the large number of observed human mate preferences have evolved independently and simultaneously. Here, we built a computational agent-based model that simulates the evolution of ten traits via natural selection and the resulting evolution of up to ten preferences via sexual selection, varying the number of preferences from one to ten. We developed one model in which preferences evolved through indirect selection and another that added direct selection. Initially, in models with fewer preferences influencing mate choice, preferences evolved visibly alongside preferred traits. However, the more preferences that influenced mate choice, the slower the rate of evolution of preferences. Under the ten-preference model, preferences showed minimal evolution under indirect selection, whereas the addition of direct selection led to more substantial changes, indicating greater robustness to these constraints. Given the numerous mate preferences observed in humans, our findings suggest that we may need to refine some explanations of how these preferences evolved.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106692
Pascal Boyer
The ecological perspective defended by Baumard & André offer a way to avoid the ambiguities that result from a notion of “inheritance” for cultural materials. It also allows us to formulate more precise empirical hypotheses concerning the motivations for producing cultural materials, as illustrated in the case of inter-group violence and of mystical explanations of misfortune.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106693
Ryosuke Iritani , Stuart A. West
Baumard and André (2025) have suggested that cultural dynamics can be studied as a form of ecology. This provides a simpler unified approach to explaining cultural evolution, within the context of human behaviour being shaped by natural selection. We briefly expand on two points: (1) why inclusive fitness represents our most general answer to what organisms are selected to maximise; (2) the potential for using existing eco-evolutionary theory methods to model cultural evolution.
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