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  1. A case study of infanticide in the Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

    Article • Behaviour, March 2026, De Gruyter

    Professor Tom Dickins

  2. Inferring Choice from Outcomes: Decomposing Foraging Decisions into Selection, Success, and Persistence

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins

  3. Not Quite a Theory of Everyone

    Article • Human Ethology, May 2024, International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE)

    Professor Tom Dickins

  4. The Role of Information in Evolutionary Biology

    Article • Acta Biotheoretica, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  5. Gull-human interactions in an urban population of Herring Gulls Larus argentatus and Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus

    Article • Bird Study, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  6. Why is greater income inequality associated with lower life satisfaction and poorer health? Evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey, 2012

    Article • The Social Science Journal, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  7. Global sex differences in hygiene norms and their relation to sex equality

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, June 2022, PLOS

    Professor Kimmo Eriksson, Professor Tom Dickins

  8. Why is greater income inequality associated with lower life satisfaction and poorer health? Evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey, 2012

    Article • May 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Tom Dickins

  9. Lessons from behaviorism: The problem of construct-led science

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  10. Data and Context

    Article • Biosemiotics, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  11. A reply to Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits by Johnson and Nettle: Inequality and existential threat.

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Tom Dickins

  12. A reply to Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits by Ellioy Johnson and Daniel Nettle: Inequality and existential threat

    Article • Global Discourse, January 2021, Policy Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  13. A not-so proximate account of cleansing behavior

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  14. Hygiene Norms Across 56 Nations are Predicted by Self-Control Values and Disease Threat

    Article • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins

  15. The Modern Synthesis

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  16. The life-cycle of artificial contexts

    Article • Modélisation et utilisation du contexte, January 2021, ISTE OpenScience

    Professor Tom Dickins

  17. Food shopping under risk and uncertainty

    Article • Learning and Motivation, November 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins

  18. Humans Discriminate Individual Large-Billed Crows by their Calls

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  19. Ancestral primacy of same-sex sexual behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  20. Conflation and refutation: Book Review of Uller, T. and K. N. Laland. eds. 2019. Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 352: pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐262‐03992‐5. $60.00/£50.00.

    Article • Evolution, January 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Dickins

  21. Ancestral primacy of same-sex behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Tom Dickins

  22. Kleptoparasitism in gulls Laridae at an urban and a coastal foraging environment: an assessment of ecological predictors

    Article • Bird Study, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  23. Evolution and Prenatal Development

    Article • March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  24. Suicide terrorism and post-mortem benefits

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  25. The Gradual Extinction of Transferred Avoidance Stimulus Functions

    Article • The Psychological Record, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  26. Why does relative deprivation affect mental health? The role of justice, trust and social rank in psychological wellbeing and paranoid ideation

    Article • Journal of Public Mental Health, June 2014, Emerald

    Professor Tom Dickins

  27. Group-level traits can be studied with standard evolutionary theory

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  28. THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

    Article • Evolution, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Dickins, Thom Scott-Phillips

  29. Epigenetic adaptations: a reply to Suter, Boffelli and Martin

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  30. Patterns of physical and psychological development in future teenage mothers

    Article • Evolution Medicine and Public Health, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Dickins

  31. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, March 2013, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  32. Reciprocal causation and the proximate–ultimate distinction

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  33. A behavioural ecological classic reborn

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, December 2012, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  34. Teenage pregnancy in the United Kingdom: A behavioral ecological perspective.

    Article • Journal of Social Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, September 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Tom Dickins

  35. The extended evolutionary synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  36. A review of David Sloan Wilson (2011)The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, December 2011, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  37. Teenage pregnancy and motherhood: How might evolutionary theory inform policy?

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, March 2011, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  38. Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  39. Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  40. Early-life conditions and age at first pregnancy in British women

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  41. The generation game is the cooperation game: The role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  42. Two more things for consideration: Sexual orientation and conduct disorder

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  43. Changes in Art: Market Forces or Evolution?: A Response to Colin Martindale

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  44. Birthweight and paternal involvement predict early reproduction in British women: Evidence from the National Child Development Study

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  45. Is this conjectural phenotypic dichotomy a plausible outcome of genomic imprinting?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  46. Sex-related invariance across cultures in an online role-playing game

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, June 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  47. Mother nature's tolerant ways: Why non-genetic inheritance has nothing to do with evolution

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins

  48. Social dominance and sexual orientation

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, March 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  49. Humane intelligence

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, March 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  50. Designed calibration: Naturally selected flexibility, not non-genetic inheritance

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  51. Mind the gap(s)… in theory, method and data: Re-examining Kanazawa (2006)

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, May 2007, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  52. Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  53. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  54. Women’s Hedonic Ratings of Body Odor of Heterosexual and Homosexual Men

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  55. The phylogeny and ontogeny of adaptations

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  56. Aggression, empathy and sexual orientation in males

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  57. The self-reported importance of olfaction during human mate choice

    Article • Sexualities Evolution & Gender, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  58. Can There Ever Be a Non-Specific Adaptation? A Response to Simon J. Hampton

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, September 2005, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  59. On sociosexual cognitive architecture

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  60. Book Review: On the Aims of Evolutionary Theory

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  61. Book Review: A Necessary Pain in the Heart

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  62. Challenging the rational choice theorist perspective Emotion, evolution and rationality. Dylan Evans and Pierre Cruse (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. No. of pages 292. ISBN 0-19-852898-1. (paperback)

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  63. Social Constructionism as Cognitive Science

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  64. Possible phylogenies: The role of hypotheses, weak inferences, and falsification

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  65. General Symbol Machines: The First Stage in the Evolution of Symbolic Communication

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, January 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  66. Is empirical imagination a constraint on adaptationist theory construction?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  67. Evolution, Development and Learning — a Nested Hierarchy?

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  68. How the mind works. Steven Pinker. Allen Lane: W. W. Norton, 1998. Pp. 660.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  69. A 'considered' evolutionary perspective on the 'glass ceiling'

    Article • Psychology Evolution & Gender, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  70. Helping Undergraduates to Become More Effective Learners ‐An Evaluation of Two Learning Interventions

    Article • Innovations in Education and Training International, November 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  71. The evolution of communication. Marc D. Hauser. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Pp. 760.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, April 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  72. Full-time studying and long-term relationships: make or break for mature students?

    Article • British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, February 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  73. Full-time studying and long-term relationships: Make or break for mature students?

    Article • British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, February 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  74. Language and human behavior. Derek Bickerton. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. Pp. 180.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, July 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  75. The seeds of speech: Language origin and evolution. Aitchison Jean. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp 281.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, April 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  76. Antecedents of teenage pregnancy: using an evolutionary perspective in the search for mechanisms

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins