ArticleHuman nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)2016
The Origins and Maintenance of Female Genital Modification across Africa : Bayesian Phylogenetic Modeling of Cultural Evolution under the Influence of Selection.
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- Intergenerational Transmission of Female Genital Cutting: Community and Marriage Dynamics.Journal of marriage and the family · 2019Article
- Economic inequality drives female sexualization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Religious change preceded economic change in the 20th century.Science advances · 2018Article
- Frequency-Dependent Social Transmission and the Interethnic Transfer of Female Genital Modification in the African Diaspora and Indigenous Populations of Colombia.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2015Article
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Abstract
We present formal evolutionary models for the origins and persistence of the practice of Female Genital Modification (FGMo). We then test the implications of these models using normative cross-cultural data on FGMo in Africa and Bayesian phylogenetic methods that explicitly model adaptive evolution. Empirical evidence provides some support for the findings of our evolutionary models that the de novo origins of the FGMo practice should be associated with social stratification, and that social stratification should place selective pressures on the adoption of FGMo; these results, however, are tempered by the finding that FGMo has arisen in many cultures that have no social stratification, and that forces operating orthogonally to stratification appear to play a more important role in the cross-cultural distribution of FGMo. To explain these cases, one must consider cultural evolutionary explanations in conjunction with behavioral ecological ones. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our study for policies designed to end the practice of FGMo.
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