Commentary on Hackman, J., & Hruschka, D. (2013). Fast life histories, not pathogens, account for state-level variation in homicide, child maltreatment, and family ties in the US Evolution and Human Behavior, 34,118-124

摘要

Hackman & Hruschka (2013) have criticized our studies across USA states of the cultural variables homicide, child maltreatment, religiosity, and family ties. We published analyses of these variables in relation to parasite adversity in Thornhill & Fincher (2011) (homicide and child maltreatment) and Fincher and Thornhill, 2012a and Fincher and Thornhill, 2012b (religiosity and family ties). Hackman & Hruschka (2013) provided two criticisms and conclude from their own analyses that the findings in our two papers are more consistent with life history theory than with the parasite-stress theory that we draw from in our research papers.