EPAs By Name

These EPAs are supported by broad and deep empirical evidence and thus are part of the EPA table above.
Click on an EPA name to open its dossier and explore the evidence behind it.

• Behavioral Immune System
• Bitter Taste Aversion
• Core Disgust
• Essence Categorization
• Food Aversion in Pregnancy
• Intentional Stance
• Language
• Physical Self-Protection from Conspecifics
• Resource Inequality Sensitivity
• Sexual Jealousy
• Sweet Taste Preference
• Theory of Mind
• Wariness Around Snakes
• Wariness Around Spiders

Proposed EPAs Currently Lacking Empirical Support

These EPAs have been proposed in the literature but do not currently have sufficient empirical support to be on the EPA table.
Click an EPA below to see why not. If you're a Curator, you can add evidence to increase support for these EPAs,
and with enough supporting evidence, they may end up on the EPA table.

• Color Vision
• Edge detection in vision
• Incest Avoidance
• Infant Anxiety Around Strangers
• Infant Exploratory Behavior
• Intuitive Economics
• Intuitive Engineering
• Intuitive Physics
• Intuitive Probability
• Logic, and Mental Database
• MHC-Mediated Relatedness Detector
• Moral Disgust
• Novelty Preference
• Number Sense
• Olfactory Recognition of Offspring
• Ovulation Detector
• Recognition of Disgust Cues
• Recognition of Emotions via Facial Expression
• Resources Preference
• Romantic Love
• Social Learning
• Spatial Sense
• Status Preference
• Thirst