Brooke Scelza

Sep 19, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Brooke Scelza

In the “manosphere,” an online world of angry young men, those who have been “red-pilled,” in a nod to the film The Matrix, have purportedly been awakened to the truth about gender and sexual politics. At its core is the notion that men do not actually have systemic privilege; they are instead at the whims of women, who will take advantage of them unless they assert their dominance. In their worldview, the “cuck” is a disenfranchised victim of hyperfeminist power.

Aug 26, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Gillian Meeks |Brooke Scelza |Sean P. Prall |Hana M Asnake

AbstractAging is associated with genome-wide changes in DNA methylation in humans, facilitating the development of epigenetic age prediction models. However, most of these models have been trained primarily on European-ancestry individuals, and none account for the impact of methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTL).

Jul 16, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Cole Williams |Brooke Scelza |Sarah Slack |Rasika A. Mathias

AbstractAccurate reconstruction of pedigrees from genetic data remains a challenging problem. Pedigree inference algorithms are often trained only on European-descent families in urban locations. Many relationship categories can be difficult to distinguish (e.g. half-sibships versus avuncular) without external information. Furthermore, existing methods perform poorly in endogamous populations for which there may be reticulations within the pedigrees and elevated haplotype sharing.

Mar 7, 2024 | cambridge.org | CHRISTOPHER von RUEDEN |Jeremy Koster |Brooke Scelza |Mary Shenk

Summary Status hierarchy likely exists in all human societies, whether pronounced or more subtle, and even in more egalitarian societies where resources are widely shared and overt status-seeking is actively policed. This chapter reviews models of the evolution of status hierarchy, including models from behavioral ecology as well as from evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution.

Feb 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Brooke Scelza

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflict of interest. REFERENCES 1 Cuckoldry (human and nonhuman). In: P Wheelan, A Bolin, editors. The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. John Wiley & Sons Press; 2015. p. 1–2. 2, Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-Cuckoldry Tactics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2006. 3 Coevolution of paternal investment and cuckoldry in humans.