Evolved mate preferences comprise a central causal process in Darwin's theory of sexual
selection. Their powerful influences have been documented in all sexually reproducing …

Although girls and women in many societies avidly participate in sports, they have been
traditionally underrepresented compared with boys and men. In this review, we address the …

Social status motivates much of human behavior. However, status may have been a
relatively weak target of selection for much of human evolution if ancestral foragers tended …

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to
more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in …

In many human societies, high male social status associates with higher fertility, but the
means by which status increases lifetime fitness have not been systematically investigated …

When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of
male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that he accorded so much …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

Human behavioral ecology (HBE) is the study of human behavior from an adaptive
perspective. It focuses in particular on how human behavior varies with ecological context …

Understanding how systems of political and economic inequality evolved from relatively
egalitarian origins has long been a focus of anthropological inquiry. Many hypotheses have …