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Watch Dr. Arnocky describe recent research findings surrounding the evolution of human mate-poaching on CTV News North

http://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=292427

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Happy to share with you a chapter on Behavioral Genomics, written with Chris Lalonde at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, appearing in the Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior ... See MoreSee Less

Behavioral Genomics

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Gene; Genetics; Omics The influence of gene expression on behavior. The diversity of behavior across the animal kingdom, including both invertebrate and vertebrate classes, is vast, complex, and is...

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Human Evolution Laboratory

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The first documented lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&ut... ... See MoreSee Less

Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild - Scientific Reports

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Intraspecies violence, including lethal interactions, is a relatively common phenomenon in mammals. Contrarily, interspecies violence has mainly been investigated in the context of predation and recei...

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Human Evolution Laboratory

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Our new paper in Archives of Sexual Behavior: A meta-analysis of over 5,000 participants across 33 studies shows men high in self-perceived mate value adopt a shorter-term mating strategylink.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-01937-6 ... See MoreSee Less

Men’s Mate Value Correlates with a Less Restricted Sociosexual Orientation: A Meta-Analysis - Archives of Sexual Behavior

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Men, relative to women, can benefit their total reproductive success by engaging in short-term pluralistic mating. Yet not all men enact such a mating strategy. It has previously been hypothesized tha...

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Human Evolution Laboratory

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Some interesting research aligning with our previous findings linking altruism to mating successwww.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658466/full?utm_source=F-AAE&utm_medium=EMLF&utm_... ... See MoreSee Less

Looking Like a Million Dollars: Does Attractiveness Priming Increase Altruistic Behavior in Experimental Games?

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The emergence of altruistic behavior constitutes one of the most widely studied problems in evolutionary biology and behavioral science. Multiple explanations have been proposed, most importantly incl...

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Human Evolution Laboratory

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Interesting research out of Australia replicating and extending our work on facial structure and sociosexuality. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S109051382100012X ... See MoreSee Less

Facial shape provides a valid cue to sociosexuality in men but not women

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Existing work suggests that observers' perceptions of sociosexuality from strangers' faces are positively associated with individuals' self-reported s...

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