Different Selection Pressures Give Rise to Distinct Ethnic Phenomena: A Functionalist Framework with Illustrations from the Peruvian Altiplano

Human Nature

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-27

  Moya, Cristina ^a   Boyd, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cooperation; Essentialism; Ethnicity; Intergroup relations; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; COGNITION; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROUP PROCESS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STEREOTYPING;

ADULT; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERU; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84939970683     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: 19364776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-015-9224-9     Document Type: Article

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