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Gamilaraay kinship revisited: incidence of recessive disease is dynamically traded-off against benefits of cooperative behaviours
Jared M. Field
Traditional Indigenous marriage rules have been studied extensively since the mid 1800s. Despite this, they have historically been cast aside as having very little utility. This is…
Ignorance can be evolutionarily beneficial
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
Information is increasingly being viewed as a resource used by organisms to increase their fitness. Indeed, it has been formally shown that there is a sensible way to assign a repr…
Evolutionary stability and the rarity of grandmothering
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
The provision of intergenerational care, via the Grandmother Hypothesis, has been implicated in the evolution of post-fertile longevity, particularly in humans. However, if grandmo…
The evolution of sleep is inevitable
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
There are two contrasting explanations of sleep: as a proximate, essential physiological function or as an adaptive state of inactivity and these hypotheses remain widely debated.…