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Strategic differentiation and integration of genomic-level heritabilities facilitate individual differences in preparedness and plasticity of human life history

by Guy Madison and Candace Black

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015

Life history (LH) strategies refer to the pattern of allocations of bioenergetic and material res... more Life history (LH) strategies refer to the pattern of allocations of bioenergetic and material resources into different domains of fitness. While LH is known to have moderate to high population-level heritability in humans, both at the level of the high-order factor (Super-K) and the lower-order factors (K, Covitality, and the General Factor of Personality), several important questions remain unexplored. Here, we apply the Continuous Parameter Estimation Model to measure individual genomic-level heritabilities (termed transmissibilities). These transmissibility values were computed for the latent hierarchical structure and developmental dynamics of LH strategy, and demonstrate; (1) moderate to high heritability of factor loadings of Super-K on its lower-order factors, evidencing biological preparedness, genetic accommodation, and the gene-culture coevolution of biased epigenetic rules of development; (2) moderate to high heritability of the magnitudes of the effect of the higher-order factors upon their loadings on their constituent factors, evidencing genetic constraints upon phenotypic plasticity; and (3) that heritability of the LH factors, their factor loadings, and the magnitudes of the correlations among factors, are weaker among individuals with slower LH speeds. The results were obtained from an American sample of 316 monozygotic (MZ) and 274 dizygotic (DZ) twin dyads and a Swedish sample of 863 MZ and 475 DZ twin dyads, and indicate that inter-individual variation in transmissibility is a function of individual socioecological selection pressures. Our novel technique, opens new avenues for analyzing complex interactions among heritable traits inaccessible to standard structural equation methods.

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Substance, History, and Politics

Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior, 2017

The aim of this article is to examine the relations between two approaches to the measurement of ... more The aim of this article is to examine the relations between two approaches to the measurement of life history (LH) strategies: A traditional approach, termed here the biodemographic approach, measures developmental characteristics like birthweight, gestation length, interbirth intervals, pubertal timing, and sexual debut, and a psychological approach measures a suite of cognitive and behavioral traits such as altruism, sociosexual orientation, personality, mutualism, familial relationships, and religiosity. The biodemographic approach also tends not to invoke latent variables, whereas the psychological approach typically relies heavily upon them. Although a large body of literature supports both approaches, they are largely separate. This review examines the history and relations between biodemographic and psychological measures of LH, which remain murky at best. In doing so, we consider basic questions about the nature of LH strategies: What constitutes LH strategy (or perhaps more...

A Sequential Canonical Cascade Model of Social Biogeography: Plants, Parasites, and People

Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2016

Complementary Meta-Analytic Methods for the Quantitative Review of Research: 2. An Extended Illustration

Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 2014

Contents Meta-Analysis is a procedure designed to quantitatively analyze the methodological chara... more Contents Meta-Analysis is a procedure designed to quantitatively analyze the methodological characteristics in studies sampled in conventional meta-analyses to assess the relationship between methodologies and outcomes. This article presents the rationale and procedures for conducting a Contents Meta-Analysis in conjunction with conventional Effects Meta-analysis. We provide an overview of the pertinent limitations of conventional meta-analysis from methodological and meta-scientific standpoint. We then introduce novel terminology distinguishing different kinds of complementary metaanalyses that address many of the problems previously identified for conventional metaanalyses. We would also like to direct readers to the second paper in this series (Figueredo, Black, & Scott, this issue), which demonstrates the utility of Contents Meta-Analysis with an empirical example and present findings regarding the generalizability of the effect sizes estimated.

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No matter Where You Go, There You Are: The Genetic Foundations of Temporal Stability

Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 2014

Evolutionary Perspectives of Personality

Evolutionary Psychology, 2015

Strategic differentiation and integration of genomic-level heritabilities facilitate individual differences in preparedness and plasticity of human life history

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015

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Parasite stress, ethnocentrism, and life history strategy

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2012

Fincher &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;... more Fincher &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Thornhill (F&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;T) present a compelling argument that parasite stress underlies certain cultural practices promoting assortative sociality. However, we suggest that the theoretical framework proposed is limited in several ways, and that life history theory provides a more explanatory and inclusive framework, making more specific predictions about the trade-offs faced by organisms in the allocation of bioenergetic and material resources.

Measures of domain-specific resource allocations in life history strategy: Indicators of a latent common factor or ordered developmental sequence

by Vanessa Smith-Castro, Tomas Cabeza de Baca, and Candace Black

The psychometric trait approach to human life history, based on common factor modeling, has recen... more The psychometric trait approach to human life history, based on common factor modeling, has recently come under some criticism for neglecting to inquire into the developmental progression that orients and executes human life history trajectories (Copping, Campbell, & Muncer, 2014). It was asserted that the psychometric approach wholly focuses on creating a higher-order latent factor of life history by subsuming individual differences with developmental and social experiences, ignoring ontogenetic progression. Implicit in the critique is the assumption that developmental perspectives and latent approaches are mutually exclusive and incompatible with each other. The response to this critique by Figueredo and colleagues (2015) proposed instead that developmental perspectives and latent trait approaches are both compatible and necessary to further research on human life history strategies. The current paper uses three independent cross-sectional samples to examine whether models of human life history are best informed by a developmental perspective, psychometric trait approach, or both. In this investigation, we seek to determine whether models of human Life History (LH) are best informed by a developmental perspective, psychometric trait approach, or a combination of both. We briefly describe what LH theory is, then outline each approach to the study of human LH strategy and attempt to integrate them into a more comprehensive model of LH epigenesis. We then present three tests of this integrated epigenetic model, in comparison and contrast to two more restricted models, using a nationally-representative USA adult sample and three convenience samples, one USA and two Latin-American college student samples.

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Strategic differentiation and integration of genomic-level heritabilities facilitate individual differences in preparedness and plasticity of human life history

by Guy Madison and Candace Black

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015

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Substance, History, and Politics

Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior, 2017