Бутовская Марина Львовна
Факультет гуманитарных наук
Профессиональные интересы
Должности
- Главный научный сотрудник — Факультет гуманитарных наук, Международный центр антропологии
Био
- · Начала работать в НИУ ВШЭ в 2014 году.
- · Научно-педагогический стаж: 41 год.
Образование
- 2019 · Член-корреспондент РАН
- 2009 · Доктор исторических наук: специальность 03.03.02 «Антропология», тема диссертации: защитила в Институте этнологии и антропологии РАН докторскую диссертацию на тему «Универсальные принципы организации социальных систем у приматов, включая человека».
- 2004 · Ученое звание: Профессор
- 1982 · Специалитет: Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова, специальность «Антропология», квалификация «Биолог»
Опыт работы
- · Изучение эволюционных основ социального поведения человека (моделирование ранних этапов эволюции общества в палеолите по базе моделей сообществ приматов и данных социального поведения африканских охотников-собирателей; выявление генетических составлящих агрессивного поведения человека; кросс-культурные исследования выбора партнера, сексуальной привлекательности, пространственного поведения; выявление экологических факторов, лежащих в основе культурных вкусовых предпочтений пищи и бережного отношения к пищевым продуктам в целом .
- · Применение методов физической антропологии (антропометрия, антропологическое фото), социальной антропологии (включенное наблюдение, углубленне интервью, экспертные оценки, аудиовизуальные методы), этологические методы наблюдения, психологические методы (опросники и экспериментальные тесты)
Награды и поощрения
- · Премия выдающиеся ученые, молодые доктора и кандидаты (январь 2000)
- · Надбавка за академические успехи и вклад в научную репутацию НИУ ВШЭ (2023)
- · Надбавка за публикацию в журнале из Списка А (и приравненном к нему научном издании) (2025–2026, 2024–2025, 2023–2024)
- · Надбавка за публикацию в международном рецензируемом научном издании (2021–2022, 2019–2021, 2018–2019)
Идентификаторы исследователя
- ORCID:
0000-0002-5528-0519 - ResearcherID:
E-2368-2016 - Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=ru&user=P483puoAAAAJ
- Scopus AuthorID:
55948267500
Публикации (107)
Assessment of Male Physical Risk-Taking Behavior in a Sample of Russian Men and Women
2018 · ARTICLE · en
Research has documented sex differences in risk-taking behavior, and young men in particular are more prone than women to engage in activities associated with physical risks. Evolutionary scientists have proposed that this sex difference is a consequence of male competition over mating opportunities. Thus, mating motives promote risk-taking in men more than in women. Here, we report analyses of assessments of male physical risk-taking in a Russian sample (n = 546). Men and women judged vignettes describing men who differed in risk-taking propensity for short- and long-term attractiveness, provisioning quality, and aggres- sion. Risk-taking propensity had an effect on all attributes. Occasional (but not high) risk-takers received the highest ratings on short-term attractiveness. Low risk-takers were judged highest on long-term attractiveness and provisioning quality. High risk- takers were judged as more aggressive than occasional and low risk-takers. Thus, male risk-taking behavior affects assessments of male quality, but high risk-taking is not regarded as positive. We discuss the results with reference to evolutionary investiga- tions of risk-taking behavior and cultural characteristics of masculinity ideology.
Secular trends in height and pelvic size of Ob Ugrians (Khanty and Mansi)
2018 · ARTICLE · en
Introduction. Long term changes in the body height and female pelvic width of North-Western Siberia indigenous people - the Nothern Khanty and Sosva Mansi, were the subject matter of the study. Materials and discussion. The indices under examination were averaged by decade to trace the changes from the 1860s to 1990s. Through the birth cohorts (BiCo) from the 1860s to 1930s, the stature of Ob Ugrians did not alter significantly. In successive generations, up to the 1990s BiCo, there was an increase in body height. Males have became taller by 11.3 cm, females - by 10.4 cm (p
Waist-to-hip ratio, body-mass index, age and number of children in seven traditional societies
2017 · ARTICLE · en
It has been suggested that the preference for low WHRs evolved because low WHR provided a cue to female reproductive status and health, and therefore to her reproductive value. The present study aimed to test whether WHR might indeed be a reliable cue to female reproductive history (with lower WHRs indicating lower number of children). Previous studies showed such a relationship for modern and industrialized populations, but it has not been investigated in natural fertility, indigenous, more energy constrained populations facing greater trade-offs in energy allocation than do modern societies. Our sample comprised 925 women aged 13 to 95 years from seven non-industrial societies including tribes from Sub-Saharan Africa (Hadza, Datoga, and Isanzu), Western Siberia (Ob Ugric people: Khanty and Mansi), South America (Tsimane) and South Asia (Minahasans and Sangirese). We demonstrated a culturally stable, significant relationship between number of children and WHR among women, controlling for BMI and age. Based on these data, we suggest that WHR is a reliable cue to female reproductive history, and we discuss our results in the context of previous studies indicating usefulness of WHR as an indicator of health and fertility.
Cross-Cultural Investigation of Male Gait Perception in Relation to Physical Strength and Speed
2017 · ARTICLE · en
Previous research documents that men and women can accurately judge male physical strength from gait, but also that the sexes differ in attractiveness judgments of strong and weak male walkers. Women’s (but not men’s) attractiveness assessments of strong male walkers are higher than for weak male walkers. Here, we extend this research to assessments of strong and weak male walkers in Chile, Germany, and Russia. Men and women judged videos of virtual characters, animated with the walk movements of motion-captured men, on strength and attractiveness. In two countries (Germany and Russia), these videos were additionally presented at 70% (slower) and 130% (faster) of their original speed. Stronger walkers were judged to be stronger and more attractive than weak walkers, and this effect was independent of country (but not sex). Women tended to provide higher attractiveness judgments to strong walkers, and men tended to provide higher attractiveness judgments to weak walkers. In addition, German and Russian participants rated strong walkers most attractive at slow and fast speed. Thus, across countries men and women can assess male strength from gait, although they tended to differ in attractiveness assessments of strong and weak male walkers. Attractiveness assessments of male gait may be influenced by society-specific emphasis on male physical strength.
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
2017 · ARTICLE · en
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of interpersonal distances over a large data set (N = 8,943 participants from 42 countries). We attempted to relate the preferred social, personal, and intimate distances observed in each country to a set of individual characteristics of the participants, and some attributes of their cultures. Our study indicates that individual characteristics (age and gender) influence interpersonal space preferences and that some variation in results can be explained by temperature in a given region. We also present objective values of preferred interpersonal distances in different regions, which might be used as a reference data point in future studies.
Dietary customs and food availability shape the preferences for basic tastes: A cross-cultural study among Polish, Tsimane' and Hadza societies
2017 · ARTICLE · en
Biological significance of food components suggests that preferences for basic tastes should be similar across cultures. On the other hand, cultural factors play an important role in diet and can consequently influence individual preference for food. To date, very few studies have compared basic tastes preferences among populations of very diverse environmental and cultural conditions, and research rather did not involve traditional populations for whom the biological significance of different food components might be the most pronounced. Hence, our study focused on basic taste preferences in three populations, covering a broad difference in diet due to environmental and cultural conditions, market availability, dietary habits and food acquirement: 1) a modern society (Poles, n ¼ 200), 2) forager-horticulturalists from Amazon/Bolivia (Tsimane', n ¼ 138), and 3) hunter-gatherers from Tanzania (Hadza, n ¼ 85). The preferences for basic tastes were measured with sprays containing supra-threshold levels of sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami taste solutions. We observed several interesting differences between participating societies. We found that Tsimane’ and Polish participants liked the sweet taste more than other tastes, while Hadza participants liked salty and sour tastes more than the remaining tastes. Further, Polish people found bitter taste particularly aversive, which was not observed in the traditional societies. Interestingly, no cross-cultural differences were observed for relative liking of umami taste e it was rated closely to neutral by members of all participating societies. Additionally, Hadza showed a pattern to like basic tastes that are more common to their current diet than societies with access to different food sources. These findings demonstrate the impact of diet and market availability on preference for basic tastes.
Visual Perception of British Women's Skin Color Distribution in Two Nonindustrialized Societies, the Maasai and the Tsimane'
2017 · ARTICLE · en
In women with lightly pigmented skin in particular, facial skin color homogeneity decreases with age, primarily due to chronic exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR), leading to a decrease in perceived health and attractiveness. Perception of female skin may be influenced by continuous exposure to, and thus familiarity with, age-related changes in visible skin condition in a given society. Men and women of two traditional societies, the Maasai (Tanzania) and the Tsimane’ (Bolivia), unfamiliar with lighter colored skin, judged images of British women’s facial skin for age, health, and attractiveness. In both samples, images with homogeneous skin color (from the cheeks of younger women) were judged to be younger and healthier and received a stronger preference than corresponding images with heterogeneous skin color (from older women). We suggest that (i) human sensitivity for quality-related information from facial skin color distribution is universal and independent of any known age-dependent variation in skin in a given population and (ii) skin discoloration is universally associated with less positive judgment.
Love influences reproductive success in humans
2017 · ARTICLE · en
As love seems to be universal, researchers have attempted to find its biological basis. However, no studies till date have shown its direct association with reproductive success, which is broadly known to be a good measure of fitness. Here, we show links between love, as defined by the Sternberg Triangular Theory of Love, and reproductive success among the Hadza—traditional hunter-gatherer population. We found that commitment and reproductive success were positively and consistently related in both sexes, with number of children showing negative and positive associations with intimacy and passion, respectively, only among women. Our study may shed new light on the meaning of love in humans’ evolutionary past, especially in traditional hunter-gatherer societies in which individuals, not their parents, were responsible for partner choice.We suggest that passion and commitment may be the key factors that increase fitness, and therefore, that selection promoted love in human evolution. However, further studies in this area are recommended.
Sex difference in attractiveness perceptions of strong and weak male walkers
2016 · ARTICLE · en
Objectives: Men and women accurately assess male physical strength from facial and body morphology cues.Women’s assessments of male facial attractiveness, masculinity, and dominance correlate positively with male physical strength. A positive relationship also has been reported between physical strength and attractiveness of men’s dance movements. Here, we investigate men’s and women’s attractiveness, dominance, and strength assessments from brief samples of male gait. Methods: Handgrip strength (HGS) was measured in 70 heterosexual men and their gait was motion-captured. Men and women judged 20 precategorized strong (high HGS) and weak (low HGS) walkers on attractiveness, dominance, and strength, and provided a measure of their own HGS. Results: Both men and women judged strong walkers higher on dominance and strength than weak walkers. Women but not men judged strong walkers more attractive than weak walkers. These effects were independent of observers’ physical strength. Conclusions: Male physical strength is conveyed not only through facial and body morphology, but also through body movements. We discuss our findings with reference to studies suggesting that physical strength provides information about male quality in contexts of inter- and intrasexual selection.
Polymorphisms of two loci at the oxytocin receptor gene in populations of Africa, Asia and South Europe
2016 · ARTICLE · en
Background: The oxytocin (OT) system is known to be implicated in the regulation of complex social behavior, particularly empathy and parenting. The goal of this study was to estimate the gender and population differences in polymorphisms of two oxytocin receptor gene SNPs, rs53576 and rs2254298, in four populations. Results: These data were compared with each other and with 14 samples from the corresponding regions retrieved from the 1000 Genomes database. Low level of heterozygosity was observed for both SNPs in all populations in this study (rs53576: Catalonian, Hobs = 0.413; Hadza, Hobs = 0.556; sr2254698: Khanty-Mansi, Hobs = 0.250; Datoga, Hobs = 0.550). The amount of variance due to regional variability was almost equal for both SNPs (rs53576: FRT = 0.086, rs2554298: FRT = 0.072), whereas variance for the population level of variability was twice bigger for rs2554298 (rs53576: FST = 0.127, rs2554298: FST = 0.162). Pairwise coefficients of fixation demonstrate that the Hadza were well differentiated from other African populations except of Datoga, the Datoga were weakly differentiated from other African origin populations, the Ob Ugric people were extremely differentiated from all other populations. Catalans were extremely differentiated of Asian populations. Conclusions: It is hypothesized on the base of spatial distribution of the evolutionary novel A alleles of the both OXTR gene loci, that the spread of alleles of rs22542298 and rs53376 SNPs may be associated to some extant with manipulation of parental investment in humans.
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