Lecturer
Evolutionary Anthropology Lab
Division of Anthropology
Department of Biological Sciences
Graduate School of Science
The University of Tokyo
Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyoku
Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5841-4483

Publications

Kurokawa, S., and Ihara, Y. (2013) Evolution of social behavior in finite populations: a payoff transformation in general n-player games and its implications. Theoretical Population Biology 84, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2012.11.004

Tamura, K., and Ihara, Y. (2012) Evolution of social learning in lattice-structured populations. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 3, 25-29. doi:10.5178/lebs.2012.23

Nojo, S., Tamura, S., and Ihara, Y. (2012) Human homogamy in facial characteristics: Does a sexual-imprinting-like mechanism play a role? Human Nature 23, 323-340. doi:10.1007/s12110-012-9146-8

Seki, M., and Ihara, Y. (2012) The rate of cultural change in one-to-many social transmission when cultural variants are not selectively neutral. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 3, 12-16. doi:10.5178/lebs.2012.20

Seki, M., Ihara, Y., and Aoki, K. (2012) Homogamy and imprinting-like effect on mate choice preference for body height in the current Japanese population. Annals of Human Biology 39, 28-35. doi:10.3109/03014460.2011.635695

Tamura, K., Morita, R. C., and Ihara, Y. (2011) Evolution of egalitarian punishment. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 2, 20-23. doi:10.5178/lebs.2011.14

Nojo, S., Ihara, Y., Furusawa, H., Akamatsu, S., and Ishida, T. (2011) Facial resemblance and attractiveness: an experimental study in rural Indonesia. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 2, 9-12. doi:10.5178/lebs.2011.11

Tamura, K., and Ihara, Y. (2011) Classes of communication and the conditions for their evolution. Theoretical Population Biology 79, 174-183. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2011.03.001

Ihara, Y. (2011) Evolution of culture-dependent discriminate sociality: a gene-culture coevolutionary model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366, 889-900. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0247

Matsumoto-Oda, A., and Ihara, Y. (2011) Estrous asynchrony causes low birth rates in wild female chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 73, 180-188. doi:10.1002/ajp.20885

Kurokawa, S., Wakano, J. Y., and Ihara, Y. (2010) Generous cooperators can outperform non-generous cooperators when replacing a population of defectors. Theoretical Population Biology 77, 257-262. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2010.03.002

Kimura, M., and Ihara, Y. (2009) Replicator-dynamics models of sexual conflict. Journal of Theoretical Biology 260, 90-97. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.06.003

Kurokawa, S., and Ihara, Y. (2009) Emergence of cooperation in public goods games. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276, 1379-1384. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1546

Aoki, K., Ihara, Y., and Feldman, M. W. (2008) Conditions for the spread of culturally transmitted costly punishment of sib mating. pp.100-116 in "Explaining Culture Scientifically" (M. J. Brown ed). University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Ihara, Y. (2008) Spread of costly prestige-seeking behavior by social learning. Theoretical Population Biology 73, 148-157. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2007.10.002

Seki, M., Wakano, J. Y., and Ihara, Y. (2007) A theoretical study on the evolution of male parental care and female multiple mating: effects of female mate choice and male care bias. Journal of Theoretical Biology 247, 281-296. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.03.010

Wakano, J. Y., and Ihara, Y. (2005) Evolution of male parental care and female multiple mating: game-theoretical and two-locus diploid models. American Naturalist 166, E32-E44. doi:10.1086/431252

Kendal, J. R., Ihara, Y., and Feldman, M. W. (2005) Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use. Morrison Institute Working Paper Series, 102. pdf

Ihara, Y., and Feldman, M. W. (2004) Cultural niche construction and the evolution of small family size. Theoretical Population Biology 65, 105-111. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2003.07.003

Ihara, Y., and Feldman, M. W. (2003) Evolution of disassortative and assortative mating preferences based on imprinting. Theoretical Population Biology 64, 193-200. doi:10.1016/S0040-5809(03)00099-6

Ihara, Y., Aoki, K., and Feldman, M. W. (2003) Runaway sexual selection with paternal transmission of the male trait and gene-culture determination of the female preference. Theoretical Population Biology 63, 53-62. doi:10.1016/S0040-5809(02)00012-6

Ihara, Y. (2002) A model for evolution of male parental care and female multiple mating. American Naturalist 160, 235-244. doi:10.1086/341019 pdf*
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Ihara, Y. (2002) Does MHC influence human mate choice? pp.67-78 in "Human Mate Choice and Prehistoric Marital Networks" (K. Aoki and T. Akazawa eds). International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto.

Ihara, Y., Aoki, K., Tokunaga, K., Takahashi, K., and Juji, T. (2000) HLA and human mate choice: tests on Japanese couples. Anthropological Science 108, 199-214. doi:10.1537/ase.108.199

Ihara, Y., and Aoki, K. (1999) Sexual selection by male choice in monogamous and polygynous human populations. Theoretical Population Biology 55, 77-93. doi:10.1006/tpbi.1998.1388