A key goal of biology is to understand phenotypic characteristics, such as health, disease
and evolutionary fitness. Phenotypic variation is produced through a complex web of …

460 BUSS evolved solutions to the adaptive problems our species has faced over millions of
years. Because personality psychology is dedicated to studying human nature in all of its …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Objective: Prevalence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) disease is increasing worldwide. We aim to
test correlation of T1D prevalence to the reduced natural selection measured by Biological …

The use of socially learned information (culture) is central to human adaptations. We
investigate the hypothesis that the process of cultural evolution has played an active …

Mammals expend energy in many ways, including basic cellular maintenance and repair,
digestion, thermoregulation, locomotion, growth and reproduction. These processes can …

The emerging discipline of evolutionary medicine is breaking new ground in understanding
why people become ill. However, the value of evolutionary analyses of human physiology …

Human height is a highly variable trait, both within and between populations, has a high
heritability, and influences the manner in which people behave and are treated in society …

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 …

The genetic architecture of human reproductive behavior—age at first birth (AFB) and
number of children ever born (NEB)—has a strong relationship with fitness, human …