evolutionary

Daniel Lieberman: 'Dieting is a disaster for everyone' Harvard's professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it Interview by Ian Tucker...

Evolutionary guru: Don't believe everything you think 12 October 2011 by Graham Lawton Tell me the truth, lizard – am I deceiving myself? The human capacity for self-deception knows no bounds, but why do we do it? According to biologist Robert Trivers the simple answer is that it...

In 1975, Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson created a firestorm when, in his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, he argued that human nature might be explainable in evolutionary terms. Centuries earlier, however, a leading Christian scholar was already applying many key evolutionary principles to...