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Hisashi Nakao

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  1. Nakao, H, Kaneda, A., Tamura, K., Noshita, K., Yoshida, M., and Nakagawa, T. 2025. Continuous and widespread population interactions in the Jōmon society via geometric morphometrics on 3D data of human crania. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.09.637294
  2. Noshita, K., Kaneda, A., Nakagawa, T., Tamura, K., and Nakao, H. 2025. The cultural transmission of Ongagawa style pottery in the prehistoric Japan: Quantitative analysis on 3D data of archaeological pottery in the early Yayoi period. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 22: 20240889. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0889
  3. 中尾央. 2024. 弥生時代中期北部九州大型甕棺の楕円フーリエ解析：甕棺形状の時空間動態について. 『日本考古学』59, 21‒39.
  4. Nakao, H, Noshita, K., Kaneda, A., Tamura, K., Nakagawa, T. 2024. Macro-scale population patterns in the Kofun period of the Japanese archipelago: Quantitative analysis of a larger sample of three-dimensional data from ancient human crania. Humans, 4(2), 131‒147. https://doi.org/10.3390/humans4020008
  5. Maikuma, M. and Nakao, H. 2024. Cultural evolution of ritual practice in prehistoric Japan: The kitamakura hypothesis is examined. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 15(1), 1‒8. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2024.114
  6. Nakao, H., Nakagawa, T., Kaneda, A., Noshita, K., and Tamura, K. 2023. Demic diffusion of the Yayoi people in the Japanese archipelago. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 14(2), 58‒64. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2023.111
  7. Nakao, H. 2023. Cultural identity and intergroup conflicts: Testing parochial altruism model through archaeological data. Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 32: 75‒87. https://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos.32.0_75
  8. Kaneda, A., Noshita, K., Tamura, T., Nakagawa, T., and Nakao, H. 2022. A proposal of a new automated method for SfM/MVS 3D reconstruction through comparisons of 3D data by SfM/MVS and handheld laser scanners. PLOS ONE 17(7) e0270660. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270660
  9. Nakagawa, T., Tamura, K., Yamaguchi, Y., Matsumoto, N., Matsugi, T., and Nakao, H. 2021. Population pressure and prehistoric violence in the Yayoi period of Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science, 132: 105420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105420
  10. Nakao, H., Nakagawa, T., Tamura, K., Yamaguchi, Y., Matsumoto, N., and Matsugi, T. 2020. Violence and climate change in the Jomon period. In G. R. Schug (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change, pp. 364‒376, New York: Routledge.
  11. 中尾央. 2020. 日本考古学の理論的・哲学的基礎：発掘報告書と型式（学）を中心に. 『旧石器研究』16: 1‒9.
  12. Nakao, H. 2018. A quantitative history of Japanese archaeology and natural science Japanese Journal of Archaeology, 6(1): 3‒22.
  13. 中尾央・松木武彦・三中信宏（編）．2017．『文化進化の考古学』勁草書房．
  14. Nakagawa, T., Nakao, H., Tamura, K., Arimatsu, Y., Matsumoto, N., and Matsugi, T. 2017. Violence and warfare in the prehistoric Japan. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 8(1), 8‒11. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2017.55
  15. Nakao, H., Tamura, K., Arimatsu, Y., Nakagawa, T., Matsumoto, N., and Matsugi, T. 2016. Violence in the prehistoric period of Japan: the spatiotemporal pattern of skeletal evidence for violence in the Jomon period. Biology Letters, 12: 20160028. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0028
  16. 中尾央．2015．『人間進化の科学哲学―行動・心・文化―』名古屋大学出版会．
  17. 中尾央・後藤和宏．2015. メタ認知研究の方法論的課題. 『動物心理学研究』65(1): 45‒58．https://doi.org/10.2502/janip.65.1.1
  18. 中尾央．2015．共感・共感的配慮と道徳性. 『心理学評論』58(2):236‒248. https://doi.org/10.24602/sjpr.58.2_236.
  19. Yoshida, Y. and Nakao, H. 2015. Evo-devo as a motley aggregation: Methodological and theoretical diversity in the 1980s. Biological Theory, 10: 156‒166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-014-0197-4
  20. Sugawara, Y. and Nakao, H. 2015. What is New with the New Mechanistic Philosophy? Comments on In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences”. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, 21: 257‒263.
  21. Nakao, H. and Andrews, K. 2014. Ready to learn or ready to teach: A critique to the natural pedagogy theory. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 5(4): 465‒483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-014-0187-2
  22. Nakao, H. and Machery, E. 2012. The evolution of punishment. Biology and Philosophy, 27(6): 833‒850. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-012-9341-3
  23. Nakao, H. and Itakura, S. 2009. An integrated view of empathy: Psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 43 (1): 42‒52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-008-9066-7