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Kinga Makovi, Jean-François Bonnefon, Mayada Oudah, Anahit Sargsyan, and Tahal Rahwan

vol. 28, n. 7 (112833), July 2025

High levels of human-machine cooperation are required to combine the strengths of human and artificial intelligence. Here we investigate strategies to overcome the machine penalty, where people are less cooperative with partners they assume to be machines, than with partners they assume to be...

Olympia Campbell, Maheen Pracha, and Ruth Mace

July 2025

Concerns have been raised that an excess of men leads to societal violence, including violence against women, although recent evidence has challenged this view. One area that remains untested is honour killings, a type of femicide perpetrated by unrelated family members, such as intimate partners,...

Mengchen Dong, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan

vol. 16, n. 6973, July 2025

The deployment of AI in welfare benefit allocation accelerates decision-making but has led to unfair denials and false fraud accusations. In the US and UK (N = 3249), we examine public acceptability of speed-accuracy trade-offs among claimants and non-claimants. While the public generally tolerates...

Abdelaati Daouia, and Gilles Stupfler

vol. 188, n. 3, July 2025, pp. 712–713

Fabrice Collard, and Omar Licandro

vol. 57, n. 101284, July 2025

This paper embeds firm dynamics into the Neoclassical model in a framework with partially reversible capital and investment distortions, allowing for a simple characterization of the transitional dynamics of economies moving towards greater selection. At equilibrium, aggregate technology is...

Paul Seabright

vol. 6, n. 1 (2540002), July 2025

This paper summarises the main arguments of Seabright [2024. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People. Princeton: Princeton University Press]. In this paper, I seek to not just to explain how religion has developed through prehistory and through history, but also to...

Jordan S. Martin, Bret A. Beheim, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Paul L. Hooper, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, and Adrian Jaeggi

vol. 11, n. 31, July 2025

Explaining the rapid evolution of human cooperation and its role in our species’ biodemographic success remains a major evolutionary puzzle. To address this challenge, we tested a social drive hypothesis, which predicts that social plasticity and social selection in human groups cause indirect...

Phoebe E. Imms, Nikhil Chaudhari, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Giuseppe Barisano, Paul L. Hooper, Katherine Sayre, Edmond Seabright, Randall C. Thompson, Linda Sutherland, James Sutherland, Benjamin C. Trumble, Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Caleb Finch, Hillard Kaplan, Wendy Mack, Margaret Gatz, and Andrei Irimia

vol. 80, n. 8, July 2025

M.J. Getz, Jacob E. Aronoff, Carrie L. Jenkins, Suhail Ghafoor, J. Vazquez, N.T. Appel, Margaret Gatz, Daniel Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Bret A. Beheim, Kenneth Buetow, Caleb Finch, Gregory Thomas, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 13, n. 1, July 2025, p. 201–21

Amy Anderson, Aaron D. Blackwell, Linda Sutherland, Thomas S. Kraft, James Sutherland, Bret A. Beheim, Daniel Cummings, Suhail Ghafoor, Paul L. Hooper, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Andrei Irimia, Margaret Gatz, Wendy Mack, Chris Rowan, Michael I. Miyamoto, Kenneth Buetow, Caleb Finch, L. Samuel Wann, Adel H. Allam, Randall C. Thompson, Gregory Thomas, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, and Michael Gurven

vol. 11, n. 29, July 2025

Porous cranial lesions (cribra cranii and cribra orbitalia) are widely used by archaeologists as skeletal markers of poor child health. However, their use has not been validated with systematic data from contemporary populations, where there has been little evidence of these lesions or their health...