Evolutionary psychology - Topics

Why disgust exists: the emotion that keeps pathogens away Sperm competition and cryptic female choice in humans Waist-to-hip ratio 0.7: an evolved preference or a WEIRD sample artifact? Gould and Lewontin's spandrels paper is the most cited attack on adaptationism Why snakes and spiders scare us so easily Grooming and gossip: the primate origins of human social glue What did Darwin actually argue about the moral sense in The Descent of Man? Bateman's principle about choosy females and competitive males has failed to replicate Why negative emotions are not the enemy: their evolutionary function How did cooperation evolve if nature rewards selfishness? The environment of evolutionary adaptedness is vaguer in the original papers than in textbooks Darwin introduced sexual selection in The Descent of Man to explain the peacock's tail The Santa Barbara school vs human behavioral ecology: two ways to study evolved behavior Why do evolutionary psychologists keep getting accused of telling just-so stories? The evolutionary case for jealousy: it guards a bond What emotions are for: the functional account What is a fixed action pattern and do humans have any Why the word instinct keeps coming back in popular science books Why goslings imprint on Lorenz but human babies do not Why do humans cooperate with strangers they will never meet again? Fisher's runaway selection vs the handicap principle: two ways to explain costly ornaments The Selfish Gene made sociobiology famous and its critics furious Does emotion have a function? Evolutionary answers and their critics Kin selection explains why you would run into traffic for your brother Inequity aversion in monkeys: the cucumber and grape study David Buller's Adapting Minds argued the Pleistocene story was written after the fact Evolutionary mismatch: does it explain obesity and anxiety or explain too much? Why did the word sociobiology fall out of fashion in the 1990s? Sexual conflict: when male and female reproductive interests genuinely diverge How do evolutionary and social-construction accounts of sex differences differ? Sadness has a job: why the body pulls away and goes quiet The ovulatory shift hypothesis collapsed under large replication attempts