Caring Homo erectus
Empathy is an important human emotion, forming the foundation of the social emotions which underpin our communities. Our desire to care for one another – often at great personal cost […]
Category Archives: Relationships
Are humans supposed to be monogamous?
This Wednesday question (or “wondering Wednesdays,” or something else witty and alliterative. Suggestions please) comes from Colin who asks Just wondering if there is evoanth suggesting hominids are monogamous creatures […]
Sexual selection in humans: What is attractive and why
Some parts of human appearance seem to be adaptations to make an individual more attractive to the opposite sex. This posts investigates what they are and how reliable the research into them is.
The impersonal past and present
One of the more feared words in archaeology is “palimsest.” It refers to the principle that a single layer of sediment (or stratum) is not always made by a single […]
“Christmas parties” of the Upper Palaeolithic
I’ve previously discussed how one of the lesser known reasons forHomo sapienssuccess, particularly at higher latitudes, is our ability to divide a large group into several smaller groups to more […]
The evolution of monogomy, redux
For those of you who’ve been following this blog you should be able to recall that last week I wrote about a paper that purported to identify the development of […]
The evolution of monogamy
Humans have a rather bizarre relationships structure in which multiple, monogamous families live together. Whilst there may well be an “alpha” male he does not monopolise the females, instead allowing […]
Scientific pick-up tips
Recently I examined an article that suggested we may sexually imprint on our parents and seek out mates similar to them (or at least I like to think I examined […]
People sexually imprint on parents?
I recently spied an article in my Google Scholar alert feed that had a rather interesting abstract. This study investigates spousal correlation and mate preference for height in the Japanese […]
