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 …

Cultural evolutionists have long been interested in the problem of why fertility declines as
populations develop. By outlining plausible mechanistic links between individual decision …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

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 …

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 …

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do
women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from …

Recent findings from molecular genetics now make it possible to test directly for natural
selection by analyzing whether genetic variants associated with various phenotypes have …

Adaptive accounts of modern low human fertility argue that small family size maximizes the
inheritance of socioeconomic resources across generations and may consequently increase …

Evolutionary models of human reproduction argue that variation in fertility can be
understood as the local optimization of a life-history trade-off between offspring quantity and …

Decades of research on human fertility has presented a clear picture of how fertility varies,
including its dramatic decline over the last two centuries in most parts of the world. Why …