Imagine you're dining at a restaurant in a city you're visiting for the first –– and, most likely the last –– time.

For our ancestors, misjudging the physical strength of a would-be opponent might have resulted in painful –– and potentially deadly –– defeat.

By Poirot, Clifford S Jr Abstract: This paper addresses a longstanding controversy in InstitutionalEvolutionary Economics about whether or how Darwin's theory of biological evolution can apply to social evolution.

By Stasio, Michael J Duncan, Kathryn While not all scholars of the period agree, some have observed a paradigm shift regarding marriage and gender during the eighteenth century.

By Gosling, Samuel D Graybeal, Anna ABSTRACT. Over the past 15 years, several important theoretical and methodological developments have emerged from evolutionary biology.