Human beings persist in an extraordinary range of ecological settings, in the process
exhibiting enormous behavioural diversity, both within and between populations. People …

Human populations have extraordinary capabilities for generating behavioural diversity
without corresponding genetic diversity or change. These capabilities and their …

Over the last three decades, the application of evolutionary theory to the human sciences
has shown remarkable growth. This growth has also been characterised by a …

This is a timely review of human behavioral ecology (HBE), emphasizing its strength in
providing conceptual coherence to a variety of fields within the social sciences—particularly …

The aim of this paper is to provide non-specialist readers with an introduction to some
current controversies surrounding the application of evolutionary theory to human behaviour …

Human behavioral evolutionary studies tend to interpret behavioral diversity in terms of
either “culture” or ecology. Although human behavioral ecology and cultural evolution seem …

Human behavioural ecology emerged in the mid-1970s as a result of applying the theory of
evolution by natural selection in order to understand human behaviour. Using explicit …

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

Although the closing decades of the nineteenth century witnessed a great deal of
interchange between psychology and evolutionary biology, the hasty departure of James …

The evolution of modern humans was a complex process, involving major changes in levels
of diversity through time. The fossils and stone tools that record the spatial distribution of our …