Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor
methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from …

Recent investigations have uncovered large, consistent deviations from the predictions of
the textbook representation of Homo economicus (Alvin E. Roth et al., 1991; Ernst Fehr and …

Humans are unique in their range of environments and in the nature and diversity of their
behavioral adaptations. While a variety of local genetic adaptations exist within our species, it …

Unlike other primates, human populations are often divided into ethnic groups that have self-ascribed
membership and are marked by seemingly arbitrary traits such as distinctive styles …

Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the
predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the …

Large-scale societies in which strangers regularly engage in mutually beneficial transactions
are puzzling. The evolutionary mechanisms associated with kinship and reciprocity, which …

Arising from MA Nowak, CE Tarnita & EO Wilson Nature466, 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205
; Nowak et al. reply Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of …

… McElreath, Richard, 1973Statistical rethinking : a Bayesian course with examples in R
and Stan / Richard McElreath. pages cm. -- (Chapman & Hall/CRC texts in statistical science …

Recent behavioral experiments aimed at understanding the evolutionary foundations of
human cooperation have suggested that a willingness to engage in costly punishment, even in …

… Teaching biological concepts from which models can be developed, Richard McElreath and
… Ultimately, McElreath and Boyd’s goal is to impart the fundamental concepts that underlie …