Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
The universal decay of collective memory and attention
Our last article in Nature Human Behaviour shows that the temporal dimension of the attention received by cultural products, including scientific papers, patents, songs, movies, and biographies, decays following a universal bi-exponential function that uncovers the communicative and cultural nature of collective memory.
INTRALOCUS SEXUAL CONFLICT CAN RESOLVE THE MALE-FEMALE HEALTH-SURVIVAL PARADOX
Our paper in Nature Communications suggests that sexual conflict could help explain an unusual aspect of human demography – women live longer than men, but are less healthy than men late-in-life. A role of sexual conflict in this “male-female, health-survival” paradox has, so far, been largely neglected. We wish to highlight how evolutionary theory might provide new insights into human health and that collaboration between evolutionary biologists, human demographers and biomedical scientists provides fertile ground for exciting new research.
