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Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies
TLDR
The ontogeny of prosocial behavior is examined by studying 326 children 3–14 y of age and 120 adults from six societies, including foragers, herders, horticulturalists, and urban dwellers across the Americas, Oceania, and Africa.
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Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment
TLDR
There is substantial cross-cultural variation among eight traditional small-scale societies and two Western societies in the extent to which intent and mitigating circumstances influence moral judgments.
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Female choice and extra-pair paternity in a traditional human population
  • B. Scelza
  • Biology
    Biology Letters
  • 23 December 2011
TLDR
It is shown that among the Himba 17 per cent of all recorded marital births are attributed by women to EPP, and EPP is associated with significant increases in women's reproductive success, and this rate is higher than has been recorded in any other small-scale society.
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Fathers' Presence Speeds the Social and Reproductive Careers of Sons
  • B. Scelza
  • Sociology
    Current Anthropology
  • 1 April 2010
To date, the great majority of human paternal investment studies have focused on the effects that men have on their preadolescent children, mainly in terms of child care and provisioning. These…
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Female Mobility and Postmarital Kin Access in a Patrilocal Society
  • B. Scelza
  • Sociology
    Human nature
  • 19 November 2011
TLDR
Census and interview data from the Himba, a group of semi-nomadic African pastoralists, show that although women have reduced kin propinquity after marriage, more than half of married women are visiting with their kin at a given time and suggest that patrilocality may be less of a constraint on female kin support than has been previously assumed.
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Concentrations of trace elements in human milk: Comparisons among women in Argentina, Namibia, Poland, and the United States
TLDR
Calcium and magnesium showed more differences across populations than iron or copper, while mean concentrations of lead, but not arsenic, were low compared to recently published values from other populations.
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The hierarchy of virtue: mutualism, altruism and signaling in Martu women's cooperative hunting
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The grandmaternal niche: Critical caretaking among Martu Aborigines
  • B. Scelza
  • Psychology
    American journal of human biology : the official…
  • 1 July 2009
TLDR
The results suggest that Martu grandmothers are specializing in the type of care they provide and posits that high‐quality allocare is an important pathway to increased health and survival of grandchildren.
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Fosterage as a System of Dispersed Cooperative Breeding
TLDR
It is proposed that fosterage can act as a form of dispersed cooperative breeding, one that enhances women’s fitness by allowing them to disinvest in some children and reallocate effort to others, and it is shown that fostering out children enhances mothers’ fitness.
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The influence of age‐ and sex‐specific labor demands on sleep in Namibian agropastoralists
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