evolutionary psychology

Researchers find that densely packed neurons play an outsize role in quantitative skill—calling into question old assumptions about evolution.

Now you can blame the primate brain. And neuroscientists are eager for a deeper look.

Rats may feel concern when cage mates are trapped. But, like people, they don’t always care enough to help.

The science in Damore’s memo is still very much in play. His analysis of its implications is at best politically naive, and at worst dangerous.

What can Doctor Who teach us about spider phobia and evolution? Quite a bit, actually.

There are so many ways to go wrong in evolutionary psychology. Kate Clancy does us the tremendous favor of specifying how to do evo psych right. Invaluable reading. Here’s the pith: For something to be an evolutionarily stable strategy it has to fit a few conditions: You need clear evidence it is an adaption, which […]

In his new book, The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking, science writer Matthew Hutson argues that we're all believers -- even the staunchest of skeptics.

Read an excerpt about why people tend to blame god for their problems from the new book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking by science writer Matthew Hutson.

Evolution appears to have hard-wired men to suspect their lovers of cheating. This tendency, described in a study published Saturday in Evolutionary Psychology, may be one of many so-called cognitive biases — “psychological mechanisms that were selected not because they perceived the world accurately, but because they perceive the world inaccurately,” in the words of […]