Evolution and Human Behavior is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 covering research in which evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

ary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior

Human behavior

Human behavior refers to the range of behaviors exhibited by humans and which are influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and/or genetics....

. It is primarily a scientific journal

Scientific journal

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, but articles from scholar

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s in the humanities

Humanities

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 are also published. Papers reporting on theoretical

Theory

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 and empirical

Empirical

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 work on other species

Species

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 may be included if their relevance to the human animal is apparent. The journal is published by Elsevier

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 on behalf of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society

Human Behavior and Evolution Society

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.

See also

• Dual inheritance theory
  Dual inheritance theory
  Dual inheritance theory , also known as gene-culture coevolution, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution...
  
  
• Evolutionary developmental psychology
  Evolutionary developmental psychology
  Evolutionary developmental psychology, , is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development...
  
  
• Evolutionary psychology
  Evolutionary psychology
  Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional...
  
  
• Human behavioral ecology
  Human behavioral ecology
  Human behavioral ecology or human evolutionary ecology applies the principles of evolutionary theory and optimization to the study of human behavioral and cultural diversity. HBE examines the adaptive design of traits, behaviors, and life histories of humans in an ecological context...