The radical shift in human reproduction in the late 19th century, known as the demographic
transition, constitutes a major challenge to evolutionary approaches to human behaviour …

Human behavioral ecology may be defined as the study of the evolutionary ecology of
human behavior. Its central problem is to discover the ways in which the behavior of modem …

Page 1 Christopher Boehm Moral origins The EVOLUTION of VIRTUE, ALTRUISM, and
SHAME F surviv sacrifi justify some the ad But e existin offers T contro sense indivi risks our m …

We present two studies aimed at resolving experimentally whether religion increases
prosocial behavior in the anonymous dictator game. Subjects allocated more money to …

Abstract THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our
perception of morality and what it means to be human. Taking the life of Charles Darwin as …

Sociopaths are “outstanding” members of society in two senses: politically, they draw our
attention because of the inordinate amount of crime they commit, and psychologically, they …

People seem to have access to the workings of their own minds but not to the workings of
other minds. Philosophically speaking, this is supposed to create a problem for us. Because …

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do
women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from …

According to Alexander's [Alexander, RD (1987). The biology of moral systems. New York:
Aldine de Gruyter] theory of morality, human social groups became large as a result of …

Those who contribute to a public good sometimes experience punitive sentiments toward
others. But is the system that produces these sentiments an adaptation and, if so, which …