Religious fundamentalists have been engaged in a 70-year political battle against evolutionary theory. While the battle has focused largely on the science curriculum in our primary and secondary ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 123, No. 6 (May 2018), pp. 1601-1634 (34 pages) Status behaviors are verbal and nonverbal behaviors that elevate or lower the status of the individuals who perform ...

Without an extended evolutionary framework, the theory neglects key processes, say Kevin Laland and colleagues. Charles Darwin conceived of evolution by natural selection without knowing that genes ...

Evolutionary theory is predicated on gender equality because parents have an equal genetic contribution to children. It is the only academic theory that treats men and women equally. Evolutionary ...

ONE of the most vital and important contributions that science can make to modern thought must surely be in the realm of social science, of sociology, or the science of society?—to use the older term ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. As an evolutionary biologist I get to spend my days thinking, researching and writing about ‘the most important idea anyone ever had’.

Human intelligence didn’t develop overnight. This overview looks at the evolutionary factors that contributed to the complexity of our minds. At least 11 people stabbed at Michigan Walmart The Only ...