The assumption that early stress leads to dysregulation and impairment is widespread in
developmental science and informs prevailing models (eg, toxic stress). An alternative …

Father absence in early life has been shown to be associated with accelerated reproductive
development in girls. Evolutionary social scientists have proposed several adaptive …

Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of
psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in …

Within the evolutionary life history (LH) framework, aggression and risk‐taking are adaptive
implementations of a fast LH strategy to adapt to environmental unsafety and …

Since the Industrial Revolution, human societies have experienced high and sustained rates
of economic growth. Recent explanations of this sudden and massive change in economic …

Humans differ greatly in their tendency to discount future events, but the reasons underlying
such inter-individual differences remain poorly understood. Based on the evolutionary …

There is considerable variability in the degree to which individuals rely on their peers to
make decisions. Although theoretical models predict that environmental risks shift the cost …

Although humans cooperate universally, there is variability across individuals, times and
cultures in the amount of resources people invest in cooperative activities. The origins of …

I am grateful to have received so many stimulating commentaries from interested colleagues
regarding the psychological origins of the Industrial Revolution and the role of evolutionary …

With regard to human, life history theory postulates the existence of a continuum of
reproductive life history strategies (LHS): fast strategy–slow strategy. Earlier studies show …