How Evolution Made the Mind
Evolutionary psychology asks whether humans are general-purpose learners or have Pleistocene-shaped psychological adaptations.
February 2025
June 2024
How Evolution Works: Natural Selection, Genetics, and the Origins of Species
How does evolution actually work? Understand natural selection, genetic mutation, speciation, sexual selection, and the evidence that has made...
May 2024
Why Humans Are Religious: The Cognitive Science of Belief
Religion is universal across human cultures and deep in human history. Cognitive scientists have developed compelling theories about why — and the...
March 2024
Why Humans Make Art: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Science of Aesthetics
Why do humans make art? Explore the evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and neuroaesthetics of creativity — from Sulawesi cave paintings to...
February 2024
Why We Feel Disgust: The Biology and Moral Psychology of Revulsion
Why do we feel disgust? Explore the evolutionary biology of revulsion, Rozin's contamination research, moral dumbfounding, and how disgust shapes...
January 2024
What Is Evolutionary Psychology? The Adapted Mind and Its Controversies
A rigorous introduction to evolutionary psychology: its intellectual foundations in Cosmides and Tooby, core findings on kin selection and mate...
June 2022
What Is Evolutionary Biology?
Evolutionary biology explained: Darwin's theory of natural selection, the Modern Synthesis, population genetics, speciation, sexual selection,...