Why are human babies so helpless? Researchers explore the evolutionary purpose of infant dependency. Learn how the gap between sensory and motor skills in infants fosters human social intelligence and ...

There has been recent discussion within evolutionary psychology circles about the misuse of evolutionary psychological research findings, prompted by a piece in the Boston Globe from leading ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Evolutionary Psychology suffers from a PR ...

Infants' helplessness demonstrates unique social implications for human development. In a new paper developmental psychology researchers from the ...

Prologue -- The structure of this book -- Six paradigms -- 1. Introduction -- Some premises -- Some history -- Evolution and modification of behavior -- Evolution of ontogeny in the human animal -- ...

Enjoying evolutionary psychology, and science in general, means understanding that conclusions are not set in stone. While evolutionary psychology currently has some of the most replicable results in ...