New research suggests that when hungry, people focus more on the tastiness of food and tend to ignore nutritional information ...

He was a pioneer; he was a pathbreaker. And he was a founder—of the field of evolutionary psychology, and of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology that made UC Santa Barbara the throbbing heart ...

Mental illness has long been regarded as an aberration, a flaw in the human mind that needs correction. But what if, instead, these conditions represent an unintended consequence of evolution ...

says Robin Tinghitella, an evolutionary and behavioral ecologist at the University of Denver. In the lab, Tinghitella and colleagues compared O. ochracea flies from Hawaii and Florida. The team ...

The first career-spanning volume on Jay Matternes, who brought scientific rigor and artistic skill to natural history illustration From the time he was a child in a military family stationed in ...

Evolutionary computation (EC) has been widely used in solving FS by modeling it as an expensive wrapper-form optimization task, where a classifier is used to obtain classification accuracy for fitness ...