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Evol. Hum. Behav. Evolution and Human Behavior is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior, ranging from evolutionary psychology to evolutionary anthropology and cultural evolution. It is primarily a scientific journal, but articles from ...
Edge of chaos. "The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos." [1] The edge of chaos is a transition space between order and disorder that is hypothesized to exist within a wide variety of systems. This transition zone is a region of bounded instability that engenders a constant dynamic interplay between order ...
Upper Paleolithic (16,000-year-old) cave painting from Lascaux cave in France. Pliocene before. v. t. e. Behavioral modernity is a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits believed to distinguish current Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans, hominins, and primates. [ 1] Most scholars agree that modern human behavior can be ...
Evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP) is a research paradigm that applies the basic principles of evolution by natural selection, to understand the development of human behavior and cognition. It involves the study of both the genetic and environmental mechanisms that underlie the development of social and cognitive competencies, as well ...
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. [1] [2] It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.
Peacock tail in flight, the classic example of a Fisherian runaway. Miller's 2003 book, The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, proposes that human mate choices, courtship behavior, behavior genetics, psychometrics, and life cycle patterns support the survival value of traits related to sexual selection, such as art, morality, language, and creativity.
Darwinian literary studies (also known as literary Darwinism) is a branch of literary criticism that studies literature in the context of evolution by means of natural selection, including gene-culture coevolution. It represents an emerging trend of neo-Darwinian thought in intellectual disciplines beyond those traditionally considered as ...
Evolutionary Psychology and Behavior Ecology Group. University of Liverpool. Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology. University of Portsmouth. Evolution and Behaviour Group and MSc Programme. Brunel University. Centre for Research in Evolutionary Anthropology. Roehampton University. Evolution and Social Interaction Research Group.