Evolution

February 2025

• Feb 16, 2025ExplainersHow Evolution Made the MindEvolutionary psychology asks whether humans are general-purpose learners or have Pleistocene-shaped psychological adaptations.18 MIN2.7k

June 2024

• Jun 20, 2024ExplainersEvolution Explained: The Mechanisms of Species DevelopmentHow does evolution actually work? Understand natural selection, genetic mutation, speciation, sexual selection, and the evidence that has made...19 MIN2.9k

May 2024

• May 20, 2024CultureThe Cognitive Science Behind Religious BeliefReligion is universal across human cultures and deep in human history. Cognitive scientists have developed compelling theories about why, and the...22 MIN4.9k

March 2024

• Mar 27, 2024CultureWhy Humans Create Art: Insights from Science and EvolutionWhy do humans make art? Explore the evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and neuroaesthetics of creativity, from Sulawesi cave paintings to...16 MIN2.4k

February 2024

• Feb 20, 2024ConceptsExploring the Biology of Disgust and Moral PsychologyWhy do we feel disgust? Explore the evolutionary biology of revulsion, Rozin's contamination research, moral dumbfounding, and how disgust shapes...15 MIN5.3k

January 2024

• Jan 24, 2024ConceptsWhat Is Evolutionary Psychology and Its DebatesA rigorous introduction to evolutionary psychology: its intellectual foundations in Cosmides and Tooby, core findings on kin selection and mate...17 MIN7.8k

June 2022

• Jun 11, 2022ConceptsEvolutionary Biology: Concepts and Theories ExplainedEvolutionary biology explained: Darwin's theory of natural selection, the Modern Synthesis, population genetics, speciation, sexual selection,...15 MIN1.6k