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The Biological Roots of Music and Dance: Extending the Credible Signaling Hypothesis to Predator Deterrence by Hagen, Edward H.

“…After they diverged from panins, hominins evolved an increasingly committed terrestrial lifestyle in open habitats that exposed them to increased predation…”
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The evolutionary anthropology of political leadership by Garfield, Zachary H., von Rueden, Christopher, Hagen, Edward H.

“…Existing approaches within leadership studies often share a bias towards industrialized societies and lack broader cross-cultural and ethological reference…”
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Mental health is biological health: Why tackling “diseases of the mind” is an imperative for biological anthropology in the 21st century by Syme, Kristen L., Hagen, Edward H.

“…The germ theory of disease and the attendant public health initiatives, including sanitation, vaccination, and antibiotic treatment, led to dramatic increases…”
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Investigating evolutionary models of leadership among recently settled Ethiopian hunter-gatherers by Garfield, Zachary H., Hagen, Edward H.

“…Humans are thought to have evolved in small, egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies. Evolutionary theories of leadership, which draw heavily on studies of…”
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Competitive gossip: the impact of domain, resource value, resource scarcity and coalitions by Hess, Nicole H, Hagen, Edward H

“…Those with better reputations often obtain more resources than those with poorer reputations. Consequently, gossip might be an evolved strategy to compete for…”
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Evolutionary Theories of Depression: A Critical Review by Hagen, Edward H

“…We critically review evolutionary theories of major depressive disorder (MDD). Because most instances of MDD appear to be caused by adversity, evolutionary…”
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Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior by Syme, Kristen L., Hagen, Edward H.

“…The anthropology of Pacific cultures spotlights social conflict as a proximate cause of suicide. Ethnographic accounts suggest that suicidal behaviors are…”
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Innate food aversions and culturally transmitted food taboos in pregnant women in rural southwest India: Separate systems to protect the fetus? by Placek, Caitlyn D., Madhivanan, Purnima, Hagen, Edward H.

“…Pregnancy increases women's nutritional requirements, yet causes aversions to nutritious foods. Most societies further restrict pregnant women's diet with food…”
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Evolutionary Models of Leadership: Tests and Synthesis by Garfield, Zachary H., Hubbard, Robert L., Hagen, Edward H.

“…This study tested four theoretical models of leadership with data from the ethnographic record. The first was a game-theoretical model of leadership in…”
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All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful Falsehoods about Complex Realities by Lightner, Aaron D., Hagen, Edward H.

“…Many cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion argue that supernatural explanations are byproducts of our cognitive adaptations. An influential argument…”
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Robotic surgical management of sigmoid colon cancer in pregnancy: A case series by Hagen, Edward R., Gerson, Leigh, Rashidi, Laila, Bastawrous, Amir

“…•Colorectal cancer during pregnancy is a rare but complex clinical scenario.•Depending on the fundal height, different technical approaches must be utilized to…”
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The hungry, striving, sociable, parasitized, and slightly buzzed monkey by Hagen, Edward H.

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Organ Preservation in the Treatment of Stage II and III Rectal Cancer by Hagen, Edward R., Cleary, Robert K.

“…A 65-year-old man underwent colonoscopy to evaluate rectal bleeding and was found to have a low rectal mass. Biopsy revealed moderately differentiated…”
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Ethnomedical Specialists and their Supernatural Theories of Disease by Lightner, Aaron D., Heckelsmiller, Cynthiann, Hagen, Edward H.

“…Religious healing specialists such as shamans often use magic. Evolutionary theories that seek to explain why laypersons find these specialists convincing…”
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Testing the bargaining vs. inclusive fitness models of suicidal behavior against the ethnographic record by Syme, Kristen L, Garfield, Zachary H, Hagen, Edward H

“…Abstract Suicide is responsible for more deaths than all wars and homicides combined. Despite over a century of research on this puzzling and tragic behavior,…”
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Adaptive and non-adaptive models of depression: A comparison using register data on antidepressant medication during divorce by Rosenström, Tom, Fawcett, Tim W, Higginson, Andrew D, Metsä-Simola, Niina, Hagen, Edward H, Houston, Alasdair I, Martikainen, Pekka

“…Divorce is associated with an increased probability of a depressive episode, but the causation of events remains unclear. Adaptive models of depression propose…”
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Social networks, cooperative breeding, and the human milk microbiome by Meehan, Courtney L., Lackey, Kimberly A., Hagen, Edward H., Williams, Janet E., Roulette, Jennifer, Helfrecht, Courtney, McGuire, Mark A., McGuire, Michelle K.

“…Objectives We present the first available data on the human milk microbiome (HMM) from small‐scale societies (hunter‐gatherers and horticulturalists in the…”
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When Saying “Sorry” Isn’t Enough: Is Some Suicidal Behavior a Costly Signal of Apology?: A Cross-Cultural Test by Syme, Kristen L., Hagen, Edward H.

“…Lethal and nonlethal suicidal behaviors are major global public health problems. Much suicidal behavior (SB) occurs after the suicide victim committed a murder…”
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Game theory and human evolution: A critique of some recent interpretations of experimental games by Hagen, Edward H., Hammerstein, Peter

“…Economists and psychologists have been testing Nash equilibrium predictions of game theory models of human behavior. In many instances, humans do not conform…”
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Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures by Lightner, Aaron D, Heckelsmiller, Cynthiann, Hagen, Edward H

“…People everywhere acquire high levels of conceptual knowledge about their social and natural worlds, which we refer to as . Evolutionary explanations for…”
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