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

In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

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

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 ...

Humans are great apes. We share about 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos, who together make up the pan species. Humans don’t directly descend from pans, but we do share a common ancestor.

A Harvard professor for 46 years, he was an expert on insects and explored how natural selection and other forces could influence animal behavior. He then applied his research to humans ...

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 ...

Over 1,500 animal species, from bonobos to sea urchins to penguins are known to engage same-sex sexual behavior.Still, scientists don’t understand exactly how it came to be or why it happens ...

While many studies have looked at possible evolutionary links between men's strength and sexual behavior, a Washington State University study included data on women with a surprising result. Women ...

The implication is that homosexual behaviour in insects, especially in these beetles, isn’t an evolutionary adaptation because, where there is the pressure of sexual competition, it becomes less ...

The field of evolutionary psychology is still young and controversial. Two scientists are helping it mature through a database for easy access to the strongest research.