Analyses do not support the parasite-stress theory of human sociality |
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Authors: | Currie Thomas E Mace Ruth |
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Affiliation: | Human Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Anthropology, University College London, London WC1H 0BW, United Kingdom. t.currie@ucl.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | Re-analysis of the data provided in the target article reveals a lack of evidence for a strong, universal relationship between parasite stress and the variables relating to sociality. Furthermore, even if associations between these variables do exist, the analyses presented here do not provide evidence for Fincher & Thornhill's (F&T's) proposed causal mechanism. |
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