F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

The Price equation has been entangled with social evolution theory from the start. It has been used to derive the most general versions of kin selection theory, and Price himself produced a multilevel ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. Cultural practices — from farming ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 123, No. 6 (May 2018), pp. 1601-1634 (34 pages) Status behaviors are verbal and nonverbal behaviors that elevate or lower the status of the individuals who perform ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, ...

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