Evolutionary psychology hypotheses can be rigorously tested, and sometimes decisively overturned, challenging the long-standing claim that the field is inherently unfalsifiable, according to a ...

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

In teaching evolutionary psychology principles, I have observed the same distaste among many undergraduates that I had experienced from individuals in graduate school. This response coming from people ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...

For years, evolutionary psychologists and biologists have investigated the idea that the shape of a man’s face can predict ...