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Legacy and constraint in the evolution of human culture 人类文化进化中的遗产与约束

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106714

Zachary H. Garfield

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Rethinking causal understanding and reverse engineering through the lens of cultural ecology 从文化生态学的角度重新思考因果理解和逆向工程

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106712

François Osiurak , Giovanni Federico

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Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women 资源可用性和伴侣暴力的经历影响了哥伦比亚女性对面部男性化的偏好

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 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.

女性对男性面部阳刚之气的偏好受到个人和社会背景因素的影响，这些因素有助于在追求幸福的过程中平衡成本和收益。本研究探讨了哥伦比亚女性对男性化男性面孔的偏好如何受到关系背景和资源可用性以及她们个人亲密伴侣暴力经历的影响。利用眼球追踪的强迫选择范式，我们评估了293名通过社交媒体广告招募的哥伦比亚异性恋女性的视觉注意力和面部选择。参与者被分配到资源可用性高或低的条件下，并选择短期和长期关系的首选合作伙伴。还收集了自我报告的IPV经历。结果显示，在两种关系情境中，女性都对男性面孔有强烈的偏好，在长期情境和低资源可用性情境中，偏好程度更高。然而，身体IPV的频率越高，对男性气质的偏好就越低，尤其是在长期和资源丰富的环境中。这些探索性发现表明，虽然哥伦比亚女性普遍偏爱男性特征，但社会背景因素，如资源可用性和IPV经历，显著调节了这些偏好。该研究强调了个体、进化和社会生态因素在塑造择偶偏好方面的复杂相互作用，表明男性气概的价值取决于关系目标、资源条件和个人经历（如IPV）。

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Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships 孩子们认为独特的相似性是社会伙伴关系中兼容性的更有意义的线索

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 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.

鉴于发展和维持社会关系的资源有限，人类可能会优先投资于具有高关联价值的个体，或者那些在相互互动中提供最大净收益的个体。虽然相似性可以指导从属判断，但尚不清楚哪种类型的相似性为有效的社会伙伴关系提供了有意义的基础，从而标志着更高的关联价值。目前的研究旨在调查(1)儿童如何权衡共同的社会类别和共同的偏好作为潜在社会伙伴关系线索的重要性，以及(2)儿童对共同偏好的重视是否取决于它们的稀有性。我们评估了106名日本儿童（4至12岁）对第三方友谊的推断，让他们根据性别和偏好预测角色之间的友谊。孩子们会优先考虑共同的偏好，而不是共同的性别，他们预测一个角色会和一个与他们有共同偏好的异性角色做朋友，而不是和一个没有共同偏好的同性角色做朋友。此外，当共同偏好很少而不是很常见时，这种优先考虑共同偏好的倾向会稍微强一些。当存在多种类型的相似线索时，根据独特的相似性选择社会伴侣可能是适应性的，这表明个人提供了他人不易提供的不可替代的利益。

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Comfort with microbe-sharing contact across the COVID-19 pandemic: testing behavioral immune system predictions 在COVID-19大流行期间与微生物共享接触的舒适性：测试行为免疫系统预测

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106710

Hongyu Sun , Lei Fan , Joshua M. Tybur

Theory within the behavioral immune system literature suggests that pathogen-avoidance adaptations should lead to increased contact avoidance under conditions of increased disease salience. The current study examined this hypothesis by assessing whether comfort with microbe-sharing interpersonal contact varied across the COVID-19 pandemic, when disease threats varied in salience. A longitudinal survey was conducted in the Netherlands in four periods, including May 2020 (N = 1003), February 2021 (N = 719), October 2021(N = 554), and June 2022 (N = 530). Results revealed that people reported greater explicit concerns about disease in earlier periods of the pandemic, when COVID-19 was more prevalent in internet searches and caused more deaths. However, comfort with microbe-sharing interpersonal contact was no lower early in the pandemic than later in the pandemic. Across the pandemic, people were more comfortable with microbe-sharing interpersonal contact with higher-valued targets. These findings cast doubt on the possibility that behavioral immune system mechanisms are sensitive to abstract, non-sensory indicators of pathogen threat, such as those characterizing a novel respiratory virus pandemic.

行为免疫系统文献中的理论表明，在疾病显著性增加的情况下，病原体回避适应应导致接触回避增加。目前的研究通过评估在COVID-19大流行期间，当疾病威胁显著变化时，共享微生物的人际接触的舒适度是否有所不同，来检验这一假设。在荷兰进行了四个时期的纵向调查，包括2020年5月（N = 1003）， 2021年2月（N = 719）， 2021年10月（N = 554）和2022年6月（N = 530）。结果显示，在大流行的早期，人们对疾病的担忧更为明确，当时COVID-19在互联网搜索中更为普遍，并造成更多死亡。然而，在大流行早期，人们对共享微生物的人际接触的舒适度并不低于大流行后期。在疫情期间，人们更愿意与更有价值的目标进行微生物共享的人际接触。这些发现对行为免疫系统机制对病原体威胁的抽象、非感觉指标敏感的可能性提出了质疑，例如那些表征新型呼吸道病毒大流行的指标。

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Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning 儿童对昂贵仪式的模仿：对早期文化学习的洞察

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 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.

仪式在人类生活中根深蒂固，从小就扮演着重要的角色。孩子们表现出忠实地模仿仪式的非凡意愿，然而，有限的研究已经检查了这种情况是否延伸到涉及物质成本的情况。本研究建立在这些文献的基础上，研究了当模仿涉及不同的物质成本时，儿童对匹配仪式和普通行为的反应。在当地的一家科学博物馆，共有130名4至7岁的儿童被展示了两种不同的获取贴纸的方法：一种涉及因果无关的仪式性行为，另一种涉及工具性功能行为。这两种方法的结果都是放弃赢得更多贴纸的机会。结果显示，即使付出物质代价，孩子们也会优先考虑模仿仪式而不是功能性行为。然而，当孩子们忠实地复制相关的动作成分时，他们以较低的速度复制不相关的仪式和功能动作。我们的结论是，虽然孩子们强烈倾向于学习文化上重要的仪式，但他们最终是战略性的模仿者。

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Why collective music-making is sometimes rare: A study of four indigenous societies 为什么集体音乐创作有时很罕见：对四个土著社会的研究

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 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.

当前著名的音乐进化理论认为，音乐是作为一种参与性的群体活动进化而来的，其适应功能是加强和/或表明社会凝聚力。然而，集体音乐创作的流行程度在不同的社会差异很大，在某些情况下是非常罕见的。在这里，我们考虑了可能削弱集体音乐创作的三个因素的假设：更普遍地减少集体行动，强调音乐专业知识，以及以独奏为导向的音乐风格。我们研究了四个社会中与这些假设相关的数据，在这些社会中，集体音乐创作是罕见的：玻利维亚低地的提斯曼人，巴拉圭东部的阿切人，玻利维亚和巴拉圭的阿约里奥人，以及俄罗斯特瓦共和国的图瓦人。我们的研究结果表明，在这些文化中，集体行动的规模和宗教性是影响集体音乐创作整体程度的最重要因素。音乐专业知识的影响主要局限于宗教背景下萨满的主导地位，而发达的独奏音乐风格并不一定妨碍其他社会背景下的群体表演。我们还注意到，由于入侵的殖民和帝国势力的影响，土著集体音乐创作形式的减少造成了文化损失的重要性。值得注意的是，在我们考虑的所有案例中，某种形式的集体音乐创作确实（或历史上确实）发生在重要的社会事件中，这一事实支持了群体功能主义的观点。我们的发现也指出了音乐的宗教功能的中心地位和无处不在，并表明音乐行为的这一方面需要通过音乐的进化理论来更好地解决。

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Ecology and the production of cultural materials: Two empirical illustrations 生态与文化材料的生产：两个实证例证

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 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.

鲍玛德(Baumard &；andrrous提供了一种避免文化材料“继承”概念所导致的模糊性的方法。它还使我们能够就生产文化材料的动机制定更精确的经验假设，如群体间暴力和对不幸的神秘解释的例子所说明的那样。

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Multivariate mate choice constrains mate preference evolution 多元配偶选择制约着配偶偏好进化

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 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.

择偶偏好是人们认为指导择偶的理想或标准，这对个体的包容性健康至关重要。在进化心理学中，许多择偶偏好的理论都是进化而来的，因为选择一个具有偏好特征的伴侣会带来全面的健康益处。这种进化逻辑假设，个体与与自己的偏好相一致的伴侣交配。然而，研究往往无法找到偏好与实际择偶之间的联系。最近的理论研究表明，用于评估潜在伴侣的偏好越多，这种联系就越弱。这些发现对传统观点提出了质疑，即大量观察到的人类择偶偏好是独立且同时进化的。在这里，我们建立了一个基于计算主体的模型，该模型模拟了通过自然选择产生的十种特征的进化，以及通过性选择产生的多达十种偏好的进化，偏好的数量从一种到十种不等。我们开发了一个模型，其中偏好通过间接选择进化，另一个模型增加了直接选择。最初，在影响配偶选择的偏好较少的模型中，偏好与偏好特征一起明显进化。然而，影响配偶选择的偏好越多，偏好的进化速度就越慢。在十偏好模型下，间接选择下的偏好变化最小，而直接选择的增加导致了更大的变化，表明这些约束具有更强的鲁棒性。鉴于在人类身上观察到的众多择偶偏好，我们的研究结果表明，我们可能需要完善一些关于这些偏好是如何进化的解释。

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Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution 运用包容性适应和生态进化理论来模拟文化进化

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Evolution and Human Behavior

Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 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.

Baumard和andr(2025)认为，文化动态可以作为生态学的一种形式来研究。这为解释人类行为受自然选择影响的文化进化提供了一种更简单、统一的方法。我们简要地扩展了两点：(1)为什么包容性适应度代表了我们选择哪些生物以最大化的最一般答案；(2)利用现有生态进化理论方法模拟文化进化的潜力。

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