Evolutionary psychology is not at all about "what is best for the species." Evolution, in fact, doesn't work that way at all. Along with other evolutionary processes, ...

Individuals with higher mortality risk—as judged by actuarial life insurance data—tend to care less about long-term ...

New research suggests our brains may be wired to expect danger in the dark. The study found that sensory deprivation and ...

Evolutionary psychology is the academic subdiscipline of psychology that tries to understand how the human mind works by understanding the problems it evolved to solve.

But my view is that I don’t see the framework of evolutionary psychology as-is providing us with an explanation of human behavior that we can get behind. Gizmodo: I know the paper made a big splash.

New evolutionary psychology research tackles a mind-bending evolutionary phenomenon: why women are more likely to fall asleep after sex than men. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

In Gould's critique of Evolutionary Psychology, he said, "I don't think that males are willing to rear babies only because clever females beguile us.

Women are the reason men do everything. Most neurosurgeons are men and most kindergarten teachers are women. Beautiful people have more daughters. These are a few of the conclusions from a new ...

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers proposed a number of theories on evolutionary psychology, including why we engage in reciprocal altruism, the nature of sex differences, and parent-offspring ...

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as ...