Obviously, it would be foolish to reject evolution as an explanation of modern human behavior. We have too much data suggesting that the human species evolved since the first evidence of human ...

Psychology PsychTable: Collecting Evidence for Evolutionary Psychology New tool helps psychologists see data about the evolutionary basis of behaviors.

Although rare in animals, reciprocal altruism colors much of human emotion and social behavior. Over the course of our evolutionary history we humans have developed a great variety of social ...

Belyaev bred tame foxes to study domestication in real timeTameness led to dog-like behaviour and physical trait ...

ACCORDING to evolutionary psychology, most of our actions, emotions and beliefs—including the sexual attractiveness of Donald Trump, the popularity of cheeseburgers and the crime of rape—are ...

Consistent with the largely polygenic nature of variation in behaviour 28, we found that the recent evolution of increased parental care in the monogamous P. polionotus involved many regions ...

Altruistic behavior is often seen as an exclusively human characteristic. However, behavioral research has uncovered numerous examples of altruistic behavior in the animal kingdom. In a new study ...

Most humans are grossed out by things like oozing sores or rotten meat, and there might well be an evolutionary basis for staying away from these harmful things. But it might go deeper: that ...

Sequenced fox genome hints at genetic basis of behavior. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 08 / 180806152029.htm ...

More information: Kate Lewis et al, An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function, PeerJ (2025). DOI: 10.7717/peerj.19309 Provided by ...