This chapter reviews cross‐species and cross‐cultural evidence regarding the mating
strategies and specialized mating psychologies that may be fundamental to humans …

In the Samoan language, fa'afafine means:“in the manner of a woman.” Like Samoan men,
fa'afafine are biological males. However, fa'afafine do not identify as men nor do the …

Interest in incorporating life history research from evolutionary biology into the human
sciences has grown rapidly in recent years. Two core features of this research have the …

The use of sacred values by humans to enforce cooperation has been seen throughout
human history, as demonstrated by philosophers like Marx and Aristotle observing that …

Objective A burgeoning literature inspired by life history theory suggests that psychological
and behavioral processes become adaptively calibrated to the levels of harshness and …

In our attempts to understand crime, researchers typically focus on proximate factors such as
the psychology of offenders, their developmental history, and the social structure in which …

Background: Some individuals appear prone to multiple adverse outcomes, including poor
health, school dropout, risky behavior and early reproduction. This clustering remains poorly …

Despite the tendency of some academic disciplines to assume that the nuclear family is
normative, the family takes a number of different forms cross-culturally. Regardless of family …

A recent critique of Copping, Campbell, and Muncer raised several issues concerning the
validity of psychometric assessment techniques in the study of life history (LH) strategies. In …

In Sweden, various public health interventions have been performed to reduce risky sexual
behaviors among young people and promote safer and positive approaches to sexuality …