Childhood socio-economic status (SES), a measure of the availability of material and social
resources, is one of the strongest predictors of lifelong well-being. Here we review evidence …

Childhood adversity can have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects on later life. But what
are the mechanisms that are responsible for these effects? This article brings together 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 idea that individual differences in behavior and physiology can be partly understood by
linking them to a fast-slow continuum of life history strategies has become popular in the …

The term 'life-history theory'(LHT) is increasingly often invoked in psychology, as a
framework for integrating understanding of psychological traits into a broader evolutionary …

We critically review the use of the term “life history theory” in recent publications on
evolutionary psychology, focusing on how the idea of a fast-slow continuum is deployed in …

In psychological research, there are often assumptions about the conditions that children
expect to encounter during their development. These assumptions shape prevailing ideas …

In humans and other long-lived species, harsh conditions in early life often lead to profound
differences in adult life expectancy. In response, natural selection is expected to accelerate …

We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …

Evolutionary theories of ageing point to reproduction as a significant factor to consider when
asking why ageing occurs and why there is inter-individual variation in its progression …