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  1. Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?Monique Borgerhoff Mulder - 2009 - Human Nature 20 (2):130-150.
    Applications of sexual selection theory to humans lead us to expect that because of mammalian sex differences in obligate parental investment there will be gender differences in fitness variances, and males will benefit more than females from multiple mates. Recent theoretical work in behavioral ecology suggests reality is more complex. In this paper, focused on humans, predictions are derived from conventional parental investment theory regarding expected outcomes associated with serial monogamy and are tested with new data from a postreproductive cohort (...)
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  • The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II.Gert Stulp, Rebecca Sear, Susan B. Schaffnit, Melinda C. Mills & Louise Barrett - 2016 - Human Nature 27 (4):445-470.
    Studies of the association between wealth and fertility in industrial populations have a rich history in the evolutionary literature, and they have been used to argue both for and against a behavioral ecological approach to explaining human variability. We consider that there are strong arguments in favor of measuring fertility (and proxies thereof) in industrial populations, not least because of the wide availability of large-scale secondary databases. Such data sources bring challenges as well as advantages, however. The purpose of this (...)
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  • Perceptions of Income Inequality and Women’s Intrasexual Competition.Abby M. Ruder, Gary L. Brase, Nora J. Balboa, Jordann L. Brandner & Sydni A. J. Basha - 2023 - Human Nature 34 (4):605-620.
    Income inequality has been empirically linked to interpersonal competition and risk-taking behaviors, but a separate line of findings consistently shows that individuals have inaccurate perceptions of the actual levels of income inequality in society. How can inequality be both consistently misperceived and yet a reliable predictor of behavior? The present study extends both these lines of research by evaluating if the scope of input used to assess income inequality (i.e., at the national, state, county, or postal code level) can account (...)
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  • An Evolutionary Account of Status, Power, and Career in Modern Societies.Martin Fieder & Susanne Huber - 2012 - Human Nature 23 (2):191-207.
    We hypothesize that in modern societies the striving for high positions in the hierarchy of organizations is equivalent to the striving for status and power in historical and traditional societies. Analyzing a sample of 4,491 US men and 5,326 US women, we find that holding a supervisory position or being in charge of hiring and firing is positively associated with offspring count in men but not in women. The positive effect in men is attributable mainly to the higher proportion of (...)
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