In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in
economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed argue that gender inequality …

Women and girls cooperate with each other across many domains and at many scales.
However, much of this information is buried in the ethnographic record and has been …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

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 …

When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of
male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that he accorded so much …

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do
women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded
to meet the current moment. There are three major myths of human nature: humans are …

The idea that trade-offs between offspring quantity and quality shape reproductive behaviour
has long been central to economic perspectives on fertility. It also has a parallel and richer …

Studies that examine how helping behavior varies among individuals shed light on both the
extent and the variation of human cooperative tendencies and the potential fragility of …