L Betzig
Biographic Data
| ID | 8052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Betzig |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Betzig |
| SIGNATURE | BETZIG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5938-4190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 338 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Mating Systems
Suffodit inguinal
When Julius Caesar was stabbed, 23 times, on the Ides of March, at least one of the daggers is supposed to have gone into his groin. He wasn't the last Roman to have his privates attacked. And he wasn't the last primate. In competition for sexual access, gonads are occasionally targeted: canine incisions in monkey and ape scrota are not uncommon; and rumors had a number of Roman emperors--from Caligula and Nero, to Galba, Vitellius, Domitian, Com…
Eusociality in History
Eusociality
Means, variances, and ranges in reproductive success
But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature
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Hunting Kings
Nimrod, the builder of cities from Babel to Calah, was the first “mighty man” on earth, a “mighty hunter before the Lord.” So were other Near Eastern, North African, Far Eastern, European, and New World kings. They hunted everything from lions to guanacos, on four of six continents, from the beginning to the end of recorded time. But why? Hunting provided meat, and perhaps military exercise; but most kings subsisted on domesticated animals and pl…
What Evolution Is. Ernst Mayr
Mother Nature
Medieval Monogamy
Wanting Women Isn't New; Getting Them Is—Very
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Presidents Preferred Sons
Trivers and Willard (1973) argued that, in polygynous species, parents “in good condition” should bias investment toward sons, while parents “in poor condition” should bias investment toward daughters. Biographical evidence on men in the U.S. executive branch—including presidents, vice presidents, and cabinet secretaries—suggests they produced more sons than daughters in the first cohort (Presidents Washington through Garfield), but roughly equal…
Medieval Monogamy
Was polygyny stopped by the Christian Church? Probably not. In the Middle Ages, as in other ages, powerful men married monogamously, but mated polygynously. Both laymen and church men tended to have sexual access to as many women as they could afford. But first-born sons were allowed a legitimate wife, on whom they got legitimate heirs. And latter-born sons were often celibate—that is, ineligible to sire heirs, though not chaste—that is, ineligib…
The Point of Politics
Why do men and women compete? And what makes them compete more or less? An answer to the first question follows directly from Darwin. If Homo sapiens, like other species, is a product of natural selection, then we should have evolved to compete in order to reproduce. An answer to the second question follows from more recent versions of Darwinism. People, like other organisms, are likely to compete socially - to form dominance hierarchies - to the…
Of human bonding
A Not So Perfect Peace
Many accounts of the Caroline Islands have called the people in them non‐violent. This paper uses early ethnographies, more recent ethnohistories, and new recollections on the part of the people of Ifaluk to reconstruct the extent of conflict on Caroline Islands and between them. Culture on Ifaluk in precontact times, and even in recent times, was violent in many respects. The evidence presented here contradicts several earlier arguments, among t…
Darwin, Sex, and Status
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations
Human Reproductive Behaviour
Causes of Conjugal Dissolution
Rethinking Polygyny
Biological Anthropology
Human Reproductive Behaviour
Human mating and parenting behaviors are examined from a Darwinian perspective in this collection of 20 papers by anthropologists biologists and psychologists. The emphasis is on studies using quantitative data. The first part includes 9 studies on mating and marriage patterns in different societies. The second part has 10 studies on parenting and reproduction and the factors affecting them. There is no specific geographic or time period focus. A…
Adoption by Rank on Ifaluk
Causes of Conjugal Dissolution
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations
Food Sharing on Ifaluk
On Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies
Medieval Monogamy
Was polygyny stopped by the Christian Church? Probably not. In the Middle Ages, as in other ages, powerful men married monogamously, but mated polygynously. Both laymen and church men tended to have sexual access to as many women as they could afford. But first-born sons were allowed a legitimate wife, on whom they got legitimate heirs. And latter-born sons were often celibate—that is, ineligible to sire heirs, though not chaste—that is, ineligib…
Adoption by Rank on Ifaluk
Presidents Preferred Sons
Trivers and Willard (1973) argued that, in polygynous species, parents “in good condition” should bias investment toward sons, while parents “in poor condition” should bias investment toward daughters. Biographical evidence on men in the U.S. executive branch—including presidents, vice presidents, and cabinet secretaries—suggests they produced more sons than daughters in the first cohort (Presidents Washington through Garfield), but roughly equal…
Measuring Time Allocation
Hunting Kings
Nimrod, the builder of cities from Babel to Calah, was the first “mighty man” on earth, a “mighty hunter before the Lord.” So were other Near Eastern, North African, Far Eastern, European, and New World kings. They hunted everything from lions to guanacos, on four of six continents, from the beginning to the end of recorded time. But why? Hunting provided meat, and perhaps military exercise; but most kings subsisted on domesticated animals and pl…
The Point of Politics
Why do men and women compete? And what makes them compete more or less? An answer to the first question follows directly from Darwin. If Homo sapiens, like other species, is a product of natural selection, then we should have evolved to compete in order to reproduce. An answer to the second question follows from more recent versions of Darwinism. People, like other organisms, are likely to compete socially - to form dominance hierarchies - to the…
Suffodit inguinal
When Julius Caesar was stabbed, 23 times, on the Ides of March, at least one of the daggers is supposed to have gone into his groin. He wasn't the last Roman to have his privates attacked. And he wasn't the last primate. In competition for sexual access, gonads are occasionally targeted: canine incisions in monkey and ape scrota are not uncommon; and rumors had a number of Roman emperors--from Caligula and Nero, to Galba, Vitellius, Domitian, Com…
Eusociality in History
But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Wanting Women Isn't New; Getting Them Is—Very
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Of human bonding
Human Reproductive Behaviour
Biological Anthropology
Testing Sociobiological Theory
Testing Sociobiological Theory
Measuring Time Allocation
Food Sharing on Ifaluk
Despotism and Differential Reproduction
Rethinking Polygyny
Biological Anthropology
Human Reproductive Behaviour
Human mating and parenting behaviors are examined from a Darwinian perspective in this collection of 20 papers by anthropologists biologists and psychologists. The emphasis is on studies using quantitative data. The first part includes 9 studies on mating and marriage patterns in different societies. The second part has 10 studies on parenting and reproduction and the factors affecting them. There is no specific geographic or time period focus. A…
Adoption by Rank on Ifaluk
On Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies
Human Reproductive Behaviour
Causes of Conjugal Dissolution
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations
A Not So Perfect Peace
Many accounts of the Caroline Islands have called the people in them non‐violent. This paper uses early ethnographies, more recent ethnohistories, and new recollections on the part of the people of Ifaluk to reconstruct the extent of conflict on Caroline Islands and between them. Culture on Ifaluk in precontact times, and even in recent times, was violent in many respects. The evidence presented here contradicts several earlier arguments, among t…
Darwin, Sex, and Status
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Of human bonding
The Point of Politics
Why do men and women compete? And what makes them compete more or less? An answer to the first question follows directly from Darwin. If Homo sapiens, like other species, is a product of natural selection, then we should have evolved to compete in order to reproduce. An answer to the second question follows from more recent versions of Darwinism. People, like other organisms, are likely to compete socially - to form dominance hierarchies - to the…
Wanting Women Isn't New; Getting Them Is—Very
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Presidents Preferred Sons
Trivers and Willard (1973) argued that, in polygynous species, parents “in good condition” should bias investment toward sons, while parents “in poor condition” should bias investment toward daughters. Biographical evidence on men in the U.S. executive branch—including presidents, vice presidents, and cabinet secretaries—suggests they produced more sons than daughters in the first cohort (Presidents Washington through Garfield), but roughly equal…
Medieval Monogamy
Was polygyny stopped by the Christian Church? Probably not. In the Middle Ages, as in other ages, powerful men married monogamously, but mated polygynously. Both laymen and church men tended to have sexual access to as many women as they could afford. But first-born sons were allowed a legitimate wife, on whom they got legitimate heirs. And latter-born sons were often celibate—that is, ineligible to sire heirs, though not chaste—that is, ineligib…
Medieval Monogamy
Mother Nature
What Evolution Is. Ernst Mayr
Hunting Kings
Nimrod, the builder of cities from Babel to Calah, was the first “mighty man” on earth, a “mighty hunter before the Lord.” So were other Near Eastern, North African, Far Eastern, European, and New World kings. They hunted everything from lions to guanacos, on four of six continents, from the beginning to the end of recorded time. But why? Hunting provided meat, and perhaps military exercise; but most kings subsisted on domesticated animals and pl…
But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature
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Sociology (20 works) · Biology (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Ecology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Library science (9 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works)