J C Gaulin
Biographic Data
| ID | 10842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J C Gaulin |
| GIVEN NAMES | J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaulin |
| SIGNATURE | GAULIN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5317-2736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 425 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context
Parental influence over mate choice and marriage is a norm across many cultures and throughout human history; however, more attention has been given to preferences of the mating individuals than to the preferences of parents selecting a son- or daughter-in-law. Using data collected in Nepal, a culture with a tradition of arranged marriages, we compare the preferences of unmarried adults and parents of unmarried adults using a budget allocation ta…
Pitch lowering enhances men's perceived aggressive intent, not fighting ability
Elevated recognition accuracy for low-pitched male voices in men with higher threat potential: Further evidence for the retaliation-cost model in humans
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF-Based Study
In many species, females and males form long-term mating bonds, but marriage-and especially arranged marriage-are uniquely human traits. While marriage practices impact many cultural phenomena, they also can have evolutionary (i.e., fitness) consequences. Strongly felt but not necessarily conscious mating preferences presumably evolved because they provide fitness benefits compared to random mating, and this prediction has been supported by exper…
Evidence supporting nubility and reproductive value as the key to human female physical attractiveness
Testosterone is positively and estradiol negatively associated with mucosal immunity in Amazonian adolescents
Objectives A core assumption of life history theory and the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) is that testosterone (T) upregulates energetic investment in mating effort at the expense of immunity. This tenet, along with observed positive relationships between estrogens and immunity, may contribute to the higher observed morbidity and mortality of males. In the present study, we examine the association between sex steroid hormones and mu…
Adrenal maturation, nutritional status, and mucosal immunity in Bolivian youth
OBJECTIVES: Humans-and several other apes-exhibit a unique pattern of post-natal adrenal maturation; however, the causes and consequences of variation in adrenal development are not well understood. In this study, we examine developmental and age-related maturation of the adrenal gland (measured via dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate [DHEA-S]) for potential life-history associations with growth and mucosal immunity in a rural population of immune-cha…
No Sex or Age Difference in Dead-Reckoning Ability among Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists
Why Go There? Evolution of Mobility and Spatial Cognition in Women and Men: An Introduction to the Special Issue
The low male voice is a costly signal of phenotypic quality among Bolivian adolescents
Functional Variation in Sensitivity to Cues that a Partner is Cheating with a Rival
Maternal milk DHA content predicts cognitive performance in a sample of 28 nations
Convergent evidence from neuronal biology and hominin brain hypertrophy suggests that omega-3 fatty acids are a limiting resource for neural and cognitive development in Homo sapiens, and therefore that children from populations with higher omega-3 availability should display superior cognitive performance. Using multiple regression, we tested this prediction in a sample of 28 countries, with Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) …
Voice change as a new measure of male pubertal timing: A study among Bolivian adolescents
Voice change has a number of attractive features as a marker of male pubertal timing including its methodological and technical simplicity as well as its social salience to group members
Mapping the Conceptual Space of Jealousy
Evolutionary approaches to the study of romantic jealousy have principally been guided by the idea that there are two types of threats to romantic relationships-sexual and emotional-and that these two affect men and women's fitness differently. While this approach has garnered considerable empirical support, it has not investigated the full conceptual domain of jealousy. To do so, we employ techniques developed by cognitive anthropologists and ps…
Fatty acid composition in the mature milk of Bolivian forager‐horticulturalists: Controlled comparisons with a US sample
Breast milk fatty acid (FA) composition varies greatly among individual women, including in percentages of the long-chain polyunsaturated FAs (LCPUFA) 20:4n-6 (arachidonic acid, AA) and 22:6n-3 (docosahexaenoic acid, DHA), which are important for infant neurological development. It has been suggested that owing to wide variation in milk LCPUFA and low DHA in Western diets, standards of milk FA composition should be derived from populations consum…
Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans
Voice Correlates of Mating Success in Men: Examining “Contests” Versus “Mate Choice” Modes of Sexual Selection
In Memoriam: Margo Ings Wilson
Signals of Genetic Quality and Maternal Investment Capacity: The Dynamic Effects of Fluctuating Asymmetry and Waist-to-Hip Ratio on Men’s Ratings of Women’s Attractiveness
Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are frequently studied physical attractiveness variables in social and evolutionary psychology. FA represents deviations in bilateral symmetry—differences between left and right body parts. WHR is the ratio of the smallest part of the waist to the largest part of the hips. Although FA and WHR are important mate preference criteria, research has not examined their joint influence on attractio…
Different Vocal Parameters Predict Perceptions of Dominance and Attractiveness
Low mean fundamental frequency (F(0)) in men's voices has been found to positively influence perceptions of dominance by men and attractiveness by women using standardized speech. Using natural speech obtained during an ecologically valid social interaction, we examined relationships between multiple vocal parameters and dominance and attractiveness judgments. Male voices from an unscripted dating game were judged by men for physical and social d…
Costs and benefits of fat-free muscle mass in men: Relationship to mating success, dietary requirements, and native immunity
Waist-hip ratio and cognitive ability: Is gluteofemoral fat a privileged store of neurodevelopmental resources?
Men's voices as dominance signals: Vocal fundamental and formant frequencies influence dominance attributions among men
Menarche is related to fat distribution
The energy demands of pregnancy and lactation together with the accumulation of stored fat in human females during development suggest that a critical level of fat may be required for menarche; but multivariate analyses have supported the alternative view that skeletal growth is the main factor. However, significant differences between upper‐ and lower‐body (gluteofemoral) fat suggest that fat distribution may be more relevant than total fat. Usi…
Effects of gender and sexual orientation on evolutionarily relevant aspects of human mating psychology
Sexual selection theory provides a powerful model for the analysis of psychological sex differences. This research examined (a) tests of several sex differences in mating psychology predicted from sexual selection theory, (b) broad developmental hypotheses about sex differences in mating psychology--through the relationship of mating psychology to sexual orientation, and (c) the structure of within-sex differences in mating psychology. Scales mea…
Dowry as Female Competition
Boserup (1970) views dowry as a payment made by women to guarantee future support for them and their children under circumstances where their own contributions to subsistence are relatively small. We call this the labor-value model. Here, building on the polygyny threshold theory from behavioral ecology (Orians 1969), we view dowry as a reproductive tactic used by prospective brides and their kin to attract the wealthiest bridegrooms. Our model p…
Sexual dimorphism in weight among the primates: The relative impact of allometry and sexual selection
Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: A consequence and measure of paternity uncertainty
Behavioral ecology ofAlouatta seniculus in Andean cloud forest
Trivers‐Willard effect in contemporary North American society
The Trivers‐Willard hypothesis joins the ideas of R.A. Fisher and A.J. Bateman to model parental investment strategies. Trivers and Willard argue that any overall investment bias favoring either daughters or sons would be maladaptive. Nevertheless, they suggest that, in effectively polygynous species, more complex, conditional sex biases could be adaptive. In particular, they predict that parents in good condition will bias their investment towar…
Changes in body fat distribution in relation to parity in American women: A covert form of maternal depletion
Using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), conducted from 1988-1994, we investigated the effect of reproduction on the distribution of body fat in well-nourished American women. While women tend to gain weight and fat with succeeding pregnancies, if age and body mass index are controlled, increasing parity is associated with a decrease in hip and thigh circumferences, suprailiac and thigh skinfolds, a…
Are Females the Ecological Sex
Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: Replication in a population presumed to have high paternity certainty
Sexual dimorphism in the human post-reproductive life-span: Possible causes
Different Vocal Parameters Predict Perceptions of Dominance and Attractiveness
Low mean fundamental frequency (F(0)) in men's voices has been found to positively influence perceptions of dominance by men and attractiveness by women using standardized speech. Using natural speech obtained during an ecologically valid social interaction, we examined relationships between multiple vocal parameters and dominance and attractiveness judgments. Male voices from an unscripted dating game were judged by men for physical and social d…
Menarche is related to fat distribution
The energy demands of pregnancy and lactation together with the accumulation of stored fat in human females during development suggest that a critical level of fat may be required for menarche; but multivariate analyses have supported the alternative view that skeletal growth is the main factor. However, significant differences between upper‐ and lower‐body (gluteofemoral) fat suggest that fat distribution may be more relevant than total fat. Usi…
Voice Correlates of Mating Success in Men: Examining “Contests” Versus “Mate Choice” Modes of Sexual Selection
High Paternity Certainties of Jewish Priests
Recent evidence (Skorecki et al. 1997) of significant differences between the Y chromosomes of Jewish priests (Kohanim) and laymen (Israelites) indicate very high degrees of paternity certainty (p, the probability that a man's wife's children are his own, Hartung 1985). Estimates of gene flow into the Kohanim from Israelites indicate that approximately 20% of living Ashkenazic Kohanim and 56% of living Sephardic Kohanim are descended through male…
Evolution of sex difference in spatial ability
Many sex differences are likely to be adaptive consequences of sexual selection. Sex differences in spatial ability are well described for Homo sapiens and laboratory rodents, and such cognitive traits may also be shaped by sexual selection. An evolutionary model is outlined to predict the distribution of these sex differences across species. Sex differences in spatial ability were previously believed to be universal among mammals, but the evolut…
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF-Based Study
In many species, females and males form long-term mating bonds, but marriage-and especially arranged marriage-are uniquely human traits. While marriage practices impact many cultural phenomena, they also can have evolutionary (i.e., fitness) consequences. Strongly felt but not necessarily conscious mating preferences presumably evolved because they provide fitness benefits compared to random mating, and this prediction has been supported by exper…
Proximity, Sociality, and Observation: The Definition of Social Groups
Human marriage systems and sexual dimorphism in stature
Contemporary populations of Homo sapiens are sexually dimorphic on a variety of traits. In terms of stature, men are reliably between 4% and 10% taller than women in well‐sampled human populations. Are cross‐cultural differences in the magnitude of sexual dimorphism consistent with expectations from sexual selection theory? Prior studies have provided conflicting answers to this question in part because they failed to agree on how the force of se…
No Sex or Age Difference in Dead-Reckoning Ability among Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists
Why Go There? Evolution of Mobility and Spatial Cognition in Women and Men: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Mapping the Conceptual Space of Jealousy
Evolutionary approaches to the study of romantic jealousy have principally been guided by the idea that there are two types of threats to romantic relationships-sexual and emotional-and that these two affect men and women's fitness differently. While this approach has garnered considerable empirical support, it has not investigated the full conceptual domain of jealousy. To do so, we employ techniques developed by cognitive anthropologists and ps…
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why Sex Matters:. Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. Bobbi S. Low. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 412 pp
Dowry and Female Competition: A Reply to Dickemann
Functional Variation in Sensitivity to Cues that a Partner is Cheating with a Rival
Testing Explanatory Models of Dowry: A Reply to Schlegel
A Jarman/Bell model of primate feeding niches
Choix des aliments et Évolution
Gaulin Steven J. C. Choix des aliments et Évolution. In: Communications, 31, 1979. La nourriture. Pour une anthropologie bioculturelle de l'alimentation, sous la direction de Claude Fischler. pp. 33-52
Sexual dimorphism in the human post-reproductive life-span: Possible causes
Behavioral ecology ofAlouatta seniculus in Andean cloud forest
Sexual dimorphism in weight among the primates: The relative impact of allometry and sexual selection
Proximity, Sociality, and Observation: The Definition of Social Groups
Measuring the relationship between dietary quality and body size in primates
Are Females the Ecological Sex
Comparability among measures of primate diets
Dowry as Female Competition
Boserup (1970) views dowry as a payment made by women to guarantee future support for them and their children under circumstances where their own contributions to subsistence are relatively small. We call this the labor-value model. Here, building on the polygyny threshold theory from behavioral ecology (Orians 1969), we view dowry as a reproductive tactic used by prospective brides and their kin to attract the wealthiest bridegrooms. Our model p…
Dowry and Female Competition: A Reply to Dickemann
The Role of Cross-Species Studies in Cross-Cultural Research
Trivers‐Willard effect in contemporary North American society
The Trivers‐Willard hypothesis joins the ideas of R.A. Fisher and A.J. Bateman to model parental investment strategies. Trivers and Willard argue that any overall investment bias favoring either daughters or sons would be maladaptive. Nevertheless, they suggest that, in effectively polygynous species, more complex, conditional sex biases could be adaptive. In particular, they predict that parents in good condition will bias their investment towar…
Evolution of sex difference in spatial ability
Many sex differences are likely to be adaptive consequences of sexual selection. Sex differences in spatial ability are well described for Homo sapiens and laboratory rodents, and such cognitive traits may also be shaped by sexual selection. An evolutionary model is outlined to predict the distribution of these sex differences across species. Sex differences in spatial ability were previously believed to be universal among mammals, but the evolut…
Human marriage systems and sexual dimorphism in stature
Contemporary populations of Homo sapiens are sexually dimorphic on a variety of traits. In terms of stature, men are reliably between 4% and 10% taller than women in well‐sampled human populations. Are cross‐cultural differences in the magnitude of sexual dimorphism consistent with expectations from sexual selection theory? Prior studies have provided conflicting answers to this question in part because they failed to agree on how the force of se…
Testing Explanatory Models of Dowry: A Reply to Schlegel
Effects of gender and sexual orientation on evolutionarily relevant aspects of human mating psychology
Sexual selection theory provides a powerful model for the analysis of psychological sex differences. This research examined (a) tests of several sex differences in mating psychology predicted from sexual selection theory, (b) broad developmental hypotheses about sex differences in mating psychology--through the relationship of mating psychology to sexual orientation, and (c) the structure of within-sex differences in mating psychology. Scales mea…
Superior spatial memory of women: Stronger evidence for the gathering hypothesis
Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: A consequence and measure of paternity uncertainty
High Paternity Certainties of Jewish Priests
Recent evidence (Skorecki et al. 1997) of significant differences between the Y chromosomes of Jewish priests (Kohanim) and laymen (Israelites) indicate very high degrees of paternity certainty (p, the probability that a man's wife's children are his own, Hartung 1985). Estimates of gene flow into the Kohanim from Israelites indicate that approximately 20% of living Ashkenazic Kohanim and 56% of living Sephardic Kohanim are descended through male…
The Origins of Music
Adaptation and human behavior
Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why Sex Matters:. Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. Bobbi S. Low. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 412 pp
Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: Replication in a population presumed to have high paternity certainty
Biology (40 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (29 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Demography (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Ecology (12 works)