Monday, December 23, 2019

We focus on a plausible evolutionary continuity between non-human and human primates’ economic behaviour; they show some capacity to barter and even proto-monetary organization

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Are the roots of human economic systems shared with non-human primates? Elsa Addessi, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde. Neuroscience & Biobehavio...

Teen childbearing leads to lower educational attainment, lower income, & greater use of welfare for individuals who come from counties with better socioeconomic conditions

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Heterogeneous Consequences of Teenage Childbearing. Devon Gorry. Demography, volume 56, pages 2147–2168 (2019). https://link.springer.com/ar...

Children: The genetic correlation between abuse & neglect was ρg = .73 (p = .02); common environmental variance increased as socioeconomic status (SES) decreased (p = .05)

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Estimating the Heritability of Experiencing Child Maltreatment in an Extended Family Design. Katharina Pittner et al. Child Maltreatment, No...

The associations between parenting and child personality were comparable in magnitude to those between factors such as socio-economic level, birth order, and child personality—that is, small

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Longitudinal Relations Betwwen Parenting and Child Big Five Personality Traits. Mona Ayou. PhD Psychology Thesis, University of Illinois at ...

We have perceptual biases to see man-made objects; maybe extended exposure to manufactured environments in our cities has changed the way we see the world

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A perceptual bias for man-made objects in humans. Ahamed Miflah Hussain Ismail, Joshua A. Solomon, Miles Hansard and Isabelle Mareschal. Pro...

The Chinese Economic Miracle—Half of China’s river water and 90% of its groundwater is unfit to drink; Beijing has roughly the same amount of water per person (145 cubic meters) as Saudi Arabia

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Chapter 6. The Chinese Economic Miracle: How Much Is Real… How Much Is a Mirage? Michael Beckley. Dec 2019, adapted from his book Unrivaled:...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Cerebral blood flow rates in recent great apes are greater than in Australopithecus species that had equal or larger brains

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Cerebral blood flow rates in recent great apes are greater than in Australopithecus species that had equal or larger brains. Roger S. Seymo...