We use mathematical modeling to study theoretical aspects of human evolution, in particular, evolutionary origins of human behavior, psychology, culture, and society.

Members

Yasuo Ihara
Lecturer

Motohide Seki
Graduate student

Shun Kurokawa
Graduate student
JSPS research fellow

Kohei Tamura
Graduate student

Mariko Tsumaki
Graduate student

Taro Yoshida
Graduate student

Recent publications

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

Nojo, S., Tamura, S., and Ihara, Y. (2010) Human homogamy in facial characteristics: Does sexual imprinting-like mechanism play a role? Human Nature (in press).

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