M Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1697-8794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 679 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Exploring the sugar-sweetened beverage tax (SSBT) pass-through rate in the Irish hospitality sector
The effective functioning of the SSBT is premised on persistent price differences between soft drink prices based on sugar content. However, this is barely evident in the hospitality sector in Ireland. A number of recommendations are suggested, including both increasing the SSBT, and increasing it annually in line with inflation
Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates
Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers
This study investigates the determinants of paternal investment by birth fathers and stepfathers. Inclusive fitness theory predicts higher parental investment in birth children than stepchildren, and this has consistently been found in previous studies. Here we investigate whether paternal investment varies with childhood co-residence duration and differs between stepfathers and divorced birth fathers by comparing the investment of (1) stepfather…
Evolutionary Psychology of Male Violence
Evolutionary Psychology of Male Violence - 1
Pandemia Covid-19. Perspektywa psychologiczna
La gobernanza social en la UE a través de una década de funcionamiento del Semestre Europeo
A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents
In-Law Relationships in Evolutionary Perspective
In-laws (relatives by marriage) are true kin because the descendants that they have in common make them "vehicles" of one another's inclusive fitness. From this shared interest flows cooperation and mutual valuation: the good side of in-law relationships. But there is also a bad side. Recent theoretical models err when they equate the inclusive fitness value of corresponding pairs of genetic and affinal (marital) relatives-brother and brother-in-…
Estimating the prevalence of children living with a stepparent in New Zealand using linked administrative, census, and survey data
Robust estimates of the incidence of children living with a stepparent are lacking, partly due to a lack of the requisite questions on census and survey questionnaires. Even when these questions are included, resultant estimates are impacted by how respondents choose to portray their relationships. Our first aim was to develop a method for combining census or survey data with administrative data (birth registrations and migrant visa applications)…
Grandmaternal childcare and kinship laterality. Is rural Greece exceptional?
Homicide
The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only the most rudimentary scientific understanding of who is likely to kill whom and why. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson apply contemporary evolutionary theo…
Killing the Competition
Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. There is a simple, compelling answer: most homicides are the denouements of competitive interactions between men. Relatively speaking, where desired goods are distributed inequitably and competition for those goods is severe, dangerous tactics of competition are appealing and a high homicide rate is ju…
Matrilateral Bias in Human Grandmothering
Children receive more care and resources from their maternal grandmothers than from their paternal grandmothers. This asymmetry is the "matrilateral bias" in grandmaternal investment. Here we synopsize the evolutionary theories that predict such a bias, and review evidence of its cross-cultural generality and magnitude. Evolutionists have long maintained that investing in a daughter's child yields greater fitness returns, on average, than investi…
Inconsistent reports of risk behavior among Brazilian middle school students
This study assessed the consistency of self-reports of risk behavior (overall and within four specific domains: alcohol use, tobacco use, drug use, and sexual activity) in two editions of the Brazilian National School Based Survey of Adolescent Health (PeNSE): 2009 and 2012. The overall proportion of cases with at least one inconsistent response in the two editions was 11.7% (2.7% on the alcohol items, 2.1% for drug use, 4.3% for cigarette use, 3…
The role of city income inequality, sex ratio and youth mortality rates in the effect of violent victimization on health-risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents
Sociobiology
Maternal foster families provide more stable placements than paternal families
Future Discounting by Slum‐Dwelling Youth Versus University Students in Rio de Janeiro
We compared Future Discounting ( FD , preference for smaller, sooner rewards over larger, later ones) by 160 Brazilian youth (16–30 years old; 71 women and 89 men). University students and slum‐dwelling (favela) youth were compared. Participants completed a monetary FD task, a scale of youngsters′ view of their neighborhood, and self‐reported exposure to violence ( EV ). Favela youth discounted the future more than students; favela men more than …
The Bible and the Sword
Research Article| January 01 2012 THE BIBLE AND THE SWORD: JOHN THOMAS AND THE TONGAN CIVIL WAR OF 1837 Martin Daly Martin Daly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2012) 4: 71–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909828 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Daly; THE BIBLE AND THE SWORD: JOHN THOMAS AND THE TONGAN CIVIL WAR OF 1837. Wesley and Methodist Studie…
Placement stability in kinship and non-kin foster care
The Sudans in The Twenty-First Century
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What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective
Analyses regularly feature claims that European welfare states are in the process of creating an adult worker model. The theoretical and empirical basis of this argument is examined here by looking first at the conceptual foundations of the adult worker model formulation and then at the extent to which social policy reform in western Europe fits with the argument. It is suggested that the adult worker formulation is under-specified. A framework i…
Has the Child Welfare Profession Discovered Nepotistic Biases
Individualisation and Personal Obligations - Social Policy, Family Policy, and Law Reform in Germany and the UK
This article examines recent reform in law and social policy in Germany and the UK, identifying and comparing developments from a family and gender perspective. The utility of the concept of individualisation to understand the reforms is put under the spotlight by an analysis that explores the relationship between individualisation and institutions regulating personal obligations to care for and maintain others. The article offers a number of arg…
The Last of the Great Proconsuls
What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective
Analyses regularly feature claims that European welfare states are in the process of creating an adult worker model. The theoretical and empirical basis of this argument is examined here by looking first at the conceptual foundations of the adult worker model formulation and then at the extent to which social policy reform in western Europe fits with the argument. It is suggested that the adult worker formulation is under-specified. A framework i…
The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence
Journal Article The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence Get access Russell P. Dobash, Russell P. Dobash Correspondence to: R.P. Dobash, School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales CF 1 3AS. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar R. Emerson Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar…
Gender Mainstreaming in Theory and Practice
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2005
Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies
Who Kills Whom in Spouse Killings? On the Exceptional Sex Ratio of Spousal Homicides in the United States
A hitherto unremarked peculiarity of homicide in the United States is that women kill their husbands almost as often as the reverse. For every 100 US. men who kill their wives, about 75 women kill their husbands; this spousal "sex ratio of killing" (SROK) is more than twice that in other Western nations. Our analyses of spousal homicide samples from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain indicate that this contrast cannot be attr…
Killing the competition
Discriminative Parental Solicitude
The problem addressed in this paper is variability in the quality of parental care. Situational determinants of this variability are considered within the framework of evolutionary theory. Parental behavior in people and animals is discussed from this perspective, with attention to parental attachment, child abuse and neglect, parental sex differences, adoption, and differential treatment of one's children
Individualisation and Personal Obligations - Social Policy, Family Policy, and Law Reform in Germany and the UK
This article examines recent reform in law and social policy in Germany and the UK, identifying and comparing developments from a family and gender perspective. The utility of the concept of individualisation to understand the reforms is put under the spotlight by an analysis that explores the relationship between individualisation and institutions regulating personal obligations to care for and maintain others. The article offers a number of arg…
Homicide and Kinship
Placement stability in kinship and non-kin foster care
Crime and Conflict
Criminological theories are usually framed in sociological terms but always entail psychological assumptions. Psychological accounts, in their turn, entail assumptions about the adaptive "design" of evolved mental mechanisms and processes. Thus, explicit attention to recent theory and research on psychology and evolution can sometimes help criminologists generate productive hypotheses and avoid blind alleys. Homicide research is illustrative. Int…
Matrilateral Bias in Human Grandmothering
Children receive more care and resources from their maternal grandmothers than from their paternal grandmothers. This asymmetry is the "matrilateral bias" in grandmaternal investment. Here we synopsize the evolutionary theories that predict such a bias, and review evidence of its cross-cultural generality and magnitude. Evolutionists have long maintained that investing in a daughter's child yields greater fitness returns, on average, than investi…
Sex differences in valuations of the environment
Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology
A. I. Hallowell tried to turn anthropology towards a sociobiology while the former field was still strongly opposed to any consideration of the evolution of human behavior. His work is of more than historical interest, however, because he stressed the evolution of the human ability to internalize social norms and evaluate self and others in terms of them. This ability is the basis of our species's trait of cultural rather than biological adaptati…
Maternal foster families provide more stable placements than paternal families
Has the Child Welfare Profession Discovered Nepotistic Biases
Homicide and impunity
OBJECTIVE: To assess a new impunity index and variables that have been found to predict variation in homicide rates in other geographical levels as predictive of state-level homicide rates in Brazil. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional ecological study. Data from the mortality information system relating to the 27 Brazilian states for the years 1996 to 2005 were analyzed. The outcome variables were taken to be homicide victim rates in 2005, for t…
The Sudanese Bourgeoisie
Future Discounting by Slum‐Dwelling Youth Versus University Students in Rio de Janeiro
We compared Future Discounting ( FD , preference for smaller, sooner rewards over larger, later ones) by 160 Brazilian youth (16–30 years old; 71 women and 89 men). University students and slum‐dwelling (favela) youth were compared. Participants completed a monetary FD task, a scale of youngsters′ view of their neighborhood, and self‐reported exposure to violence ( EV ). Favela youth discounted the future more than students; favela men more than …
Sexual Rivalry and Sexual Conflict
There is a cross-culturally universal sex difference in homicide perpetration, and motives of male sexual proprietariness and rivalry are implicated in some substantial proportion of all homicides everywhere. With the exception of some forensic psychiatrists, however, criminologists have paid these motives little explicit attention. Human motives and emotions have evolved by selection, and the theoretical framework of evolutionary psychology can …
A reply to Gelles
Shaping the Future of Mental Health Policy and Legislation in Northern Ireland
This paper explores the complex interrelationship between service user and professional social work discourses and provides a critical commentary on their respective contributions to the recent review of mental health policy and legislation in Northern Ireland. The analysis indicates that dominant trends in mental health care, as mediated through service structures and institutional identities, have tended to prioritize the more coercive aspects …
The role of city income inequality, sex ratio and youth mortality rates in the effect of violent victimization on health-risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents
Anti-Science and the Pre-Darwinian Image of Mankind
Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers
This study investigates the determinants of paternal investment by birth fathers and stepfathers. Inclusive fitness theory predicts higher parental investment in birth children than stepchildren, and this has consistently been found in previous studies. Here we investigate whether paternal investment varies with childhood co-residence duration and differs between stepfathers and divorced birth fathers by comparing the investment of (1) stepfather…
Early Stimulation of Rodents
It is widely accepted that extra stimulation, when administered to infant laboratory rodents, has adaptive consequences. Presumed benefits are: (1) accelerated growth and development, (2) reduced emotional reactivity, (3) improved learning performance, and (4) more adaptive physiological stress responses. Levine has explained these benefits by considering such stimulation to compensate for the impoverished rearing conditions of the laboratory. Ho…
Bibliography of the Writings of Professor K. H. Connell
Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology
A. I. Hallowell tried to turn anthropology towards a sociobiology while the former field was still strongly opposed to any consideration of the evolution of human behavior. His work is of more than historical interest, however, because he stressed the evolution of the human ability to internalize social norms and evaluate self and others in terms of them. This ability is the basis of our species's trait of cultural rather than biological adaptati…
Household composition and the risk of child abuse and neglect
The incidence of child abuse and neglect resulting in validated case reports to the American Humane Association in 1976 was determined in relation to household composition, family income and age of the victim. Abuse and neglect were both maximal in father-only homes and minimal in two-natural-parent homes. Mother-only households exceed those with one natural and one step-parent in neglect incidence, but the reverse is true for abuse incidence. Po…
Sex, Evolution and Behavior
Natural selection. Fitness. The animal as strategist. Why sex? Sexual selection: competing for mates. Sexual selection: mate chioce. Comparative reproduction strategies. Life history strategy. Sex allocation. Sexual development and differentiation. Human reproduction: competition. Human reproduction: investment. Bibliography. Glossary
Discriminative Parental Solicitude
The problem addressed in this paper is variability in the quality of parental care. Situational determinants of this variability are considered within the framework of evolutionary theory. Parental behavior in people and animals is discussed from this perspective, with attention to parental attachment, child abuse and neglect, parental sex differences, adoption, and differential treatment of one's children
Child maltreatment from a sociobiological perspective
The risk of child maltreatment is increased by mitigation of parental solicitude that, in some circumstances, can be predicted from evolutionary theory
Male sexual jealousy
Some caveats about cultural transmission models
Homicide and Kinship
Post-Independence Sudan
Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents
Competitiveness, risk taking, and violence
The Sudanese Bourgeoisie
Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies
Evolutionary Social Psychology and Family Homicide
Homicide is an extreme manifestation of interpersonal conflict with minimal reporting bias and can thus be used as a conflict "assay." Evolutionary models of social motives predict that genetic relationship will be associated with mitigation of conflict, and various analyses of homicide data support this prediction. Most "family" homicides are spousal homicides, fueled by male sexual proprietariness. In the case of parent-offspring conflict, an e…
Transient Criminality
Modernization in the Sudan. Essays in Honor of Richard Hill
Homicide
Is Parent‐Offspring Conflict Sex‐Linked? Freudian and Darwinian Models
Freud's Oedipal theory sees parent‐offspring conflict as a within‐gender rivalry, whereas most modern evolutionary models interpret it as a gender‐blind disagreement about resource allocation New analyses of family homicides and a critical review of prior evidence do not support the central Freudian claim of a same‐sex contingency in parent‐offspring antagonism during the Oedipal phase Several errors of fact and interpretation in psychoanalytic t…
Killing the competition
A reply to Gelles
Religion and Political Power
Bonds of Silk
Religion and Political Power
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