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Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: the cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity by Fincher, Corey L, Thornhill, Randy

“…Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural…”
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Human oestrus by Gangestad, Steven W, Thornhill, Randy

“…For several decades, scholars of human sexuality have almost uniformly assumed that women evolutionarily lost oestrus—a phase of female sexuality occurring…”
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Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism by Fincher, Corey L, Thornhill, Randy, Murray, Damian R, Schaller, Mark

“…Pathogenic diseases impose selection pressures on the social behaviour of host populations. In humans (…”
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Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability by Eppig, Christopher, Fincher, Corey L., Thornhill, Randy

“…In this study, we hypothesize that the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability is determined in part by variation in the intensity of infectious diseases…”
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Assortative sociality, limited dispersal, infectious disease and the genesis of the global pattern of religion diversity by Fincher, Corey L, Thornhill, Randy

“…Why are religions far more numerous in the tropics compared with the temperate areas? We propose, as an answer, that more religions have emerged and are…”
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Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries by Thornhill, Randy, Fincher, Corey L., Aran, Devaraj

“…The countries of the world vary in their position along the autocracy–democracy continuum of values. Traditionally, scholars explain this variation as based on…”
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Women's sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle depend on primary partner developmental instability by Gangestad, Steven W, Thornhill, Randy, Garver-Apgar, Christine E

“…Normally ovulating women have been found to report greater sexual attraction to men other than their own partners when near ovulation relative to the luteal…”
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Zoonotic and Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Relation to Human Personality and Societal Values: Support for the Parasite-Stress Model by Thornhill, Randy, Fincher, Corey L., Murray, Damian R., Schaller, Mark

“…The parasite-stress model of human sociality proposes that humans' ontogenetic experiences with infectious diseases as well as their evolutionary historical…”
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Facial attractiveness, symmetry and cues of good genes by Scheib, Joanna E., Gangestad, Steven W., Thornhill, Randy

“…Cues of phenotypic condition should be among those used by women in their choice of mates. One marker of better phenotypic condition is thought to be…”
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DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY, DISEASE AND MEDICINE by THORNHILL, RANDY, MØLLER, ANDERS PAPE

“…ABSTRACT Developmental stability reflects the ability of a genotype to undergo stable development of a phenotype under given environmental conditions…”
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Menstrual cycle variation in women's preferences for the scent of symmetrical men by Gangestad, Steven W., Thornhill, Randy

“…Evidence suggests that female sexual preferences change across the menstrual cycle. Women's extra–pair copulations tend to occur in their most fertile period,…”
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Human (Homo sapiens ) Facial Attractiveness in Relation to Skin Texture and Color by Fink, Bernhard, Grammer, Karl, Thornhill, Randy

“…The notion that surface texture may provide important information about the geometry of visible surfaces has attracted considerable attention for a long time…”
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The Parasite-Stress Theory of Sociality, the Behavioral Immune System, and Human Social and Cognitive Uniqueness by Thornhill, Randy, Fincher, Corey L

“…Parasite adversity was an important source of Darwinian selection in human evolutionary history because parasites selected for a diversity of human behavioral…”
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The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry by Gangestad, Steven W, Thornhill, Randy

“…This study explored evolutionary hypotheses concerning extrapair sex (or EPCs: extrapair copulations). Based on recent notions about sexual selection, we…”
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On the Adaptive Origins and Maladaptive Consequences of Human Inbreeding: Parasite Prevalence, Immune Functioning, and Consanguineous Marriage by Hoben, Ashley D., Buunk, Abraham P., Fincher, Corey L., Thornhill, Randy, Schaller, Mark

“…We propose that consanguineous marriages arise adaptively in response to high parasite prevalence and function to maintain coadapted gene complexes and…”
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Direct and indirect tests for publication bias: asymmetry and sexual selection by Møller, Anders P., Thornhill, Randy, Gangestad, Steven W.

“…Recently, several studies have suggested that the biological literature may be biased because studies with particular effect sizes are more likely to get…”
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A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men's sexual behaviour by Gangestad, Steven W., Bennett, Kevin L., Thornhill, Randy

“…A single trait's fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is expected to be a poor measure of developmental instability. Hence, studies that examine associations between FA…”
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A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion by Thornhill, Randy, Palmer, Craig T, Wilson, Margo

“…A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape…”
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Adaptations to Ovulation by Gangestad, Steven W, Thornhill, Randy, Garver-Apgar, Christine E

“…In socially monogamous species in which males heavily invest in offspring, there arises an inevitable genetic conflict between partners over whether investing…”
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Cryptic female choice and its implications in the scorpionfly Harpobittacus nigriceps by Thornhill, R

“…Female choice is a poorly understood area of evolutionary biology. Mate choice theory and the generally greater control of the process of reproduction by…”
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