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ReviewEvolution, medicine, and public health2020

How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic.

Megan Arnot, Eva Brandl, O L K Campbell, Yuan Chen, Juan Du, Mark Dyble, Emily H Emmott, Erhao Ge, Luke D W Kretschmer, Ruth Mace and 5 more

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Review in Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. The Effect of the COVID-19 on Corrosive Ingestion in Thailand.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2021
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  20. Adaptive function and correlates of anxiety during a pandemic.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Megan ArnotDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6293-5202
Eva BrandlDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
O L K CampbellDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
Yuan ChenState Key Laboratory of Grassland and Agro-ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui South Rd, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-7069-1631
Juan DuState Key Laboratory of Grassland and Agro-ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui South Rd, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, People's Republic of China.
Mark DybleDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
Emily H EmmottDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
Erhao GeState Key Laboratory of Grassland and Agro-ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui South Rd, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, People's Republic of China.
Luke D W KretschmerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, UK.
Ruth MaceDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
Alberto J C MichelettiInstitute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, 1 esplanade de l'Université, 31080 Toulouse Cedex 06, France.
Sarah NilaDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
Sarah PeaceyDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.
Gul Deniz SalaliDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9538-3064
Hanzhi ZhangDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology, virology and public health, with most behavioural advice in public health focusing squarely on 'proximate' determinants of behaviour. While epidemiological models are powerful tools to predict the spread of disease when human behaviour is stable, most do not incorporate behavioural change. The evolutionary basis of our preferences and the cultural evolutionary dynamics of our beliefs drive behavioural change, so understanding these evolutionary processes can help inform individual and government decision-making in the face of a pandemic.

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behavioural ecologybehaviour changeCOVID-19cultural evolutionlockdownsocial distancing

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PMID33318799
PMCPMC7665496

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