Jeff Snyder: UCLAIn general, women in the U.S. appear to prefer prestigious men to dominant men under most circumstances. However, some women select domineering men as long-term intimate partners – sometimes at a high cost to themselves. Such women are likely sensitive to their self-perceived vulnerability to danger, and hence may select domineering men when […]
Adrian Jaeggi: UCSBFood sharing is a vibrant field of study that has provided important insights into the evolution of cooperation, life history, and social learning. Common functional explanations for sharing include nutritional and informational benefits to offspring, tolerated scrounging, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and costly signaling. I review the most important findings regarding food sharing […]
Clark Barrett: UCLAThe capacity of organisms to deal with evolutionary novelty has been regarded by some as a puzzle. If adaptations have been shaped by natural selection operating in the past, then how can they possibly respond adaptively to objects, events, and situations that clearly did not exist until recently? This has been regarded as […]
