Thomas Pollet - US Politics

Desperate to have a baby girl? Thomas Pollet, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, thinks the confusion is partly a result of researchers struggling to determine what constitutes better or worse conditions for mothers. So Pollet and ...

Women are more likely to marry men who can provide for them and their children than penniless men, says Daniel Nettle, a behavioural scientist at Newcastle University, UK, who led the new study.. With carefully collected figures on male and female income ...

Family values may have declined over the 20th century, but blood remains thicker than water - just about. That's according to a comparison of childless couples in 1910 with those of today. Thomas Pollet at the University of Newcastle, UK, and Robin ...

Last updated at 13:07pm on . So maternal grandparents were always more certain than paternal grandparents that a grandchild was related to them. And maternal grandparents, especially maternal grandmothers, will go the extra mile to visit their family. Thomas Pollet and colleagues ...

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