Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

The occurrence of cooperation poses a problem for the biological and social sciences.
However, many aspects of the biological and social science literatures on this subject have …

Abstract Development in many organisms appears to show evidence of sensitive windows—
periods or stages in ontogeny in which individual experience has a particularly strong …

Abstract Arising from MA Nowak, CE Tarnita & EO Wilson Nature466, 1057–1062 (2010)
10.1038/nature09205; Nowak et al. reply Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has …

Natural selection operates both directly, via the impact of a trait upon the individual's own
fitness, and indirectly, via the impact of the trait upon the fitness of the individual's genetically …

Niche construction refers to the activities of organisms that bring about changes in their
environments, many of which are evolutionarily and ecologically consequential. Advocates …

Romantic love is a phenomenon of immense interest to the general public as well as to
scholars in several disciplines. It is known to be present in almost all human societies and …

The evolutionary forces that drive fitness variation in species are of considerable interest.
Despite this, the relative importance and interactions of genetic and social factors involved in …

Interactions among conspecifics influence social evolution through two distinct but intimately
related paths. First, they provide the opportunity for indirect genetic effects (IGEs), where …

Inclusive fitness theory captures how individuals can influence the transmission of their
genes to future generations by influencing either their own reproductive success or that of …