This article uncovers the crisis of social reproduction in Occupied Palestine context severe economic and political turmoil by specifically highlighting ways which impacts have bee...

Cockroaches, like many other animal species, form aggregations in which social stimuli from conspecifics can alter the physiology, morphology, or behavior of individuals. In adult females of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, social isolation slows oocyte development, sexual maturation, and sexual receptivity, whereas social interactions as minimal as between just two females accelerate...

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1011-8934 eISSN 1598-6357 The Implications of Social Rejection and Peer Victimization:...

Here, we review comparative studies of African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) to explain how constraints acting at the ultimate (environmental) and proximate (organismal) levels have led to convergent gains and losses of sociality within this extensive adaptive radiation of subterranean rodents endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. At the ultimate level, living in environments that range from mesic t...

A “cult,” as the term is commonly used, denotes a set of unorthodox or spurious beliefs and the people who adhere to them. DePaulo and Morris (this issue) propose that the cult of the couple leads members of society in general and social scientists in particular to view the conjugal pair as the single most important social relationship, encompassing the roles of sexual partner, best friend, pri...