The radical shift in human reproduction in the late 19th century, known as the demographic
transition, constitutes a major challenge to evolutionary approaches to human behaviour …

Human reproductive behaviour is marked by exceptional variation at the population and
individual level. Human behavioural ecologists propose adaptive hypotheses to explain this …

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk
of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a …

This paper reexamines the relationship between status and reproductive success (at the
ultimate and proximate levels) using data on sex frequency and number of biological …

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 …

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting
brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a …

T his chapter considers the evolutionary biology of human fertility, parental investment, and
mating and is designed to provide a broad overview of the topic. It focuses on three themes …

Evolutionary and economic models of the family propose that parents face a fundamental
trade-off between fertility and investment per offspring. However, tests of this hypothesis …

▪ Abstract Evolutionary ecology of human reproduction is defined as the application of
natural selection theory to the study of human reproductive strategies and decision-making …

On the basis of church register entries from the Krummhörn region (Ostfriesland, Germany,
1720–1874) we looked at whether the existence of grandmothers had an impact on the …