Pavel Duda
Biographic Data
| ID | 102714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavel Duda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavel |
| FAMILY NAME | Duda |
| SIGNATURE | DUDA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1234-2468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea
Indigenous populations are rapidly losing their languages and culture, including traditional knowledge of nature, passed down orally from generation to generation. Here we examine knowledge of bird and plant species among the young and educated cohort of the Melpa people of Papua New Guinea and seek to understand the main causes of the decline in this knowledge. We show that although the young, educated Melpa speakers remain fluent in their nativ…
Paternity Uncertainty and Parent-Offspring Conflict Explain Restrictions on Female Premarital Sex across Societies
Global phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple origins and correlates of genital mutilation/cutting
Subsistence strategy was the main factor driving population differentiation in the bidirectional corridor of the African Sahel
OBJECTIVES: The Sahel belt is occupied by populations who use two types of subsistence strategy, nomadic pastoralism and sedentary farming, and who belong to three linguistic families, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Afro-Asiatic. Little is known, however, about the origins of these two populations and their mutual genetic relationships. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We have built a large dataset of mitochondrial DNA sequences and Y chromosomal STR haplo…
The evolution of daily food sharing
Explaining marriage patterns in a globally representative sample through socio-ecology and population history
Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion
Recent studies of the evolution of religion have revealed the cognitive underpinnings of belief in supernatural agents, the role of ritual in promoting cooperation, and the contribution of morally punishing high gods to the growth and stabilization of human society. The universality of religion across human society points to a deep evolutionary past. However, specific traits of nascent religiosity, and the sequence in which they emerged, have rem…
Evolution of life history and behavior in Hominidae
The origin of the fundamental behavioral differences between humans and our closest living relatives is one of the central issues of evolutionary anthropology. The prominent, chimpanzee-based referential model of early hominin behavior has recently been challenged on the basis of broad multispecies comparisons and newly discovered fossil evidence. Here, we argue that while behavioral data on extant great apes are extremely relevant for reconstruc…
Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion
Recent studies of the evolution of religion have revealed the cognitive underpinnings of belief in supernatural agents, the role of ritual in promoting cooperation, and the contribution of morally punishing high gods to the growth and stabilization of human society. The universality of religion across human society points to a deep evolutionary past. However, specific traits of nascent religiosity, and the sequence in which they emerged, have rem…
Evolution of life history and behavior in Hominidae
The origin of the fundamental behavioral differences between humans and our closest living relatives is one of the central issues of evolutionary anthropology. The prominent, chimpanzee-based referential model of early hominin behavior has recently been challenged on the basis of broad multispecies comparisons and newly discovered fossil evidence. Here, we argue that while behavioral data on extant great apes are extremely relevant for reconstruc…
Global phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple origins and correlates of genital mutilation/cutting
Subsistence strategy was the main factor driving population differentiation in the bidirectional corridor of the African Sahel
OBJECTIVES: The Sahel belt is occupied by populations who use two types of subsistence strategy, nomadic pastoralism and sedentary farming, and who belong to three linguistic families, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Afro-Asiatic. Little is known, however, about the origins of these two populations and their mutual genetic relationships. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We have built a large dataset of mitochondrial DNA sequences and Y chromosomal STR haplo…
Evolution of life history and behavior in Hominidae
The origin of the fundamental behavioral differences between humans and our closest living relatives is one of the central issues of evolutionary anthropology. The prominent, chimpanzee-based referential model of early hominin behavior has recently been challenged on the basis of broad multispecies comparisons and newly discovered fossil evidence. Here, we argue that while behavioral data on extant great apes are extremely relevant for reconstruc…
Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion
Recent studies of the evolution of religion have revealed the cognitive underpinnings of belief in supernatural agents, the role of ritual in promoting cooperation, and the contribution of morally punishing high gods to the growth and stabilization of human society. The universality of religion across human society points to a deep evolutionary past. However, specific traits of nascent religiosity, and the sequence in which they emerged, have rem…
The evolution of daily food sharing
Explaining marriage patterns in a globally representative sample through socio-ecology and population history
Subsistence strategy was the main factor driving population differentiation in the bidirectional corridor of the African Sahel
OBJECTIVES: The Sahel belt is occupied by populations who use two types of subsistence strategy, nomadic pastoralism and sedentary farming, and who belong to three linguistic families, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Afro-Asiatic. Little is known, however, about the origins of these two populations and their mutual genetic relationships. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We have built a large dataset of mitochondrial DNA sequences and Y chromosomal STR haplo…
Paternity Uncertainty and Parent-Offspring Conflict Explain Restrictions on Female Premarital Sex across Societies
Global phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple origins and correlates of genital mutilation/cutting
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea
Indigenous populations are rapidly losing their languages and culture, including traditional knowledge of nature, passed down orally from generation to generation. Here we examine knowledge of bird and plant species among the young and educated cohort of the Melpa people of Papua New Guinea and seek to understand the main causes of the decline in this knowledge. We show that although the young, educated Melpa speakers remain fluent in their nativ…
Biology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Phylogenetic tree (2 works)