Biomedical science has little considered the relevance of life history theory and evolutionary
and ecological developmental biology to clinical medicine. However, the observations that …

Background Recent epidemiological data indicate that there may be a gender predisposition
to COVID‐19, with men predisposed to being most severely affected, and older men …

How does repeated or chronic childhood adversity shape social and cognitive abilities?
According to the prevailing deficit model, children from high-stress backgrounds are at risk …

Amid ongoing public speculation about the reasons for sex differences in careers in science
and mathematics, we present a consensus statement that is based on the best available …

This target article presents an integrated evolutionary model of the development of
attachment and human reproductive strategies. It is argued that sex differences in …

Color is a ubiquitous perceptual stimulus, yet relatively little empirical and even less
theoretical work exists on color and psychological functioning. The research that has been …

How do exposures to stress affect biobehavioral development and, through it, psychiatric
and biomedical disorder? In the health sciences, the allostatic load model provides a widely …

Background Infectious disease incidence is often male-biased. Two main hypotheses have
been proposed to explain this observation. The physiological hypothesis (PH) emphasizes …

Males and females often age at different rates resulting in longevity 'gender gaps', where
one sex outlives the other. Why the sexes have different lifespans is an age‐old question …

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 …