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Forget the Cinderella effect: stepparents are just as likely to kill their biological children as their stepchildren

By Tim O’Mahony Operations Manager at Kexue Communications, [http://www.kexuecommunications.com](http://www.kexuecommunications.com) Researchers have known since the early 1970s that children in stepfamilies are at greater risk of child abuse and murder (Fergusson, Fleming & O’Neill, 1972). A team of Swedish researchers has found that parents in stepfamilies are equally likely to kill their biological children as they […]

Why Evolutionary Psychology is a Valid Approach for Studying Human Behaviour.

I will first demonstrate that in behavioural science there is no alternative explanation to evolution when exploring the whole causal chain that leads to a specific behaviour. Secondly I will show that the implication of this perspective yield results also in studies that focus on a more narrow subject. Last I hope to refuse the […]