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Why do we whisper?

 

Are conspiracy theorists an evolutionary adaptation?

Why do humans experience déja vu?

What are the evolutionary origins of cuteness?

Why do humans crave sweets after a meal?

 

Did we evolve to wear a bra?

 

What is the feeling of being watched?

 

Why do we hate the sound of our own voice recordings?

Why do babies kick off their blankets?

 

Why do we choose favorite colors?

The evolutionary origins of feeling awkward

 

Why do we ruminate?

Why do songs get stuck in our head?

 

Why do we feel a need to share on social media?

Why do we become attached to inanimate objects?

 

Why can humans smell rain SO well?

Why don't we hate the smell of our own smell?

 

Did prehistoric dogs look like their owners too?

Why do all humans give gifts?

 

Why can’t we tickle ourselves?

The universality and health benefits of stargazing

 

Is procrastination prehistoric?

Matriarchal animals

 

Four romantic human smelling rituals.

Did prehistoric people use swear words?

12 behaviors you weren't taught, but do anyway because of evolution.

Is snoring an adaptation to protect us from predators?

13 more behaviors you weren't taught, but do anyway because of evolution

The evolutionary origins of schadenfreude.

Why do humans sleep in rectangle beds?

 

A glimpse inside prehistoric cave dwellings.

When did prehistoric kids become 'adults'

The evolutionary origins of jealousy.

Why do males have deeper voices than females?

The evolutionary origins of age-related insomnia.

Best friends in prehistory.​

Evolutionary origins of relationship ick.

When you’re cold, your body tries to grow a coat. The origins of goosebumps

40 prehistoric human habits.

Is PMS an adaptive strategy? A hypothesis, some thoughts and a scholarly dissent.

Tough questions about prehistoric cooperation turned modern manipulation.

What is an evolutionary mismatch? And 21 examples.

Humans evolved in nature. 6 physiological legacies of our evolved environment.

The curious link between romantic love and OCD; an evolutionary perspective.

How did prehistoric people handle

the postpartum period?

Did human males evolve to “spread their seed”?

The difference between migratory and nomadic.

How did early humans keep up with our insane hydration requirements?

We evolved to smile back at each other, but it’s not what you think.

6 marketing strategies that exploit human evolution (and really work)

The Garden of Eden as a prehistoric memory and why humans made the shift to agriculture.

Where did my food originate? 22 common plant foods that your ancestors probably never tasted.

“A catastrophe from which we have never recovered”. 11 symptoms of the agricultural revolution.

Why can, and do, humans drink alcohol? Is it an evolutionary mismatch?

 I scream, you scream... actually, why do any of us scream?

The evolutionary origins of addiction: How modern substances hijack ancient survival mechanisms.

The surprising evolutionary biology of a handshake (hint: it involves smell!)

Millions of years of collective evolution and now we all get itchy at the same time​.

Every hour, you are smelling yourself at an alarming rate.

The curious case of cultural hibernation.

How hunter-gatherer DNA may help you live past 100. Findings from Italian centenarians.

The cooperative society, the autonomous self. Exploring the delicate balance of human social dynamics.

How did we get here? Why have humans drifted so far from our evolutionary roots?

We evolved to feel loneliness as pain.

 

The origins of second-hand embarrassment.

A place to practice feeling feelings. A theory on the origins of human music.

Does size really matter? A deep dive into the biology of attraction.

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