Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

Modern human need for medicines is so extensive that it is thought to be a deep
evolutionary behavior. There is abundant evidence from our Paleolithic and later prehistoric …

The germ theory of disease and the attendant public health initiatives, including sanitation,
vaccination, and antibiotic treatment, led to dramatic increases in global life expectancy. As …

An" entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—
and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman …

Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean.
Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca …

Addiction poses significant social, health, and criminal issues. Its moderate heritability and
early-life impact, affecting reproductive success, poses an evolutionary paradox: why are …

Is addiction a medical disorder, and if so, what kind of disorder is it? Addiction is considered
a brain disease by NIDA, based on observed brain changes in addicts that are interpreted …

Political philosophers have long drawn explicitly or implicitly on claims about the ways in
which human behaviour is shaped by interactions within society. These claims have usually …

The human lineage transitioned to a more carnivorous niche 2.6 mya and evolved a large
body size and slower life history, which likely increased zoonotic pathogen pressure …

A particular type of miniature ceramic vessel locally known as “veneneras” is occasionally
found during archaeological excavations in the Maya Area. To date, only one study of a …