When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...

Mental health clinicians are over five times more likely to see evolutionary explanations of anxiety as helpful for their ...

When I tell people that I conduct work in the field of evolutionary psychology, a common response is about like this: “Oh, I bet you get a lot of resistance from religious people!” And folks are often ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Okay, here's one for the annals, something ...

Why do humans fear the dark? How can the science of evolutionary biology explain this primitive instinct? Fear of the dark, ...