This review aims to demonstrate the utility of integrating the insights of evolutionary psychology with sport and exercise psychology.
Time to go back to football school: at the Fifth Down, KC Joyner, the "Football Scientist," applies the insights of evolutionary genetics to the sport.
More recently, political scientists, evolutionary biologists, and even sports statisticians have gotten in on the fun.
The ratings, the sport's own natural evolutionary limitations and the history of similar sports say yes.
The finished product is a remnant of an earlier era of the sport, somewhere on the evolutionary chain between the original wooden peach baskets and the modern spring-loaded breakaway rims used by the National Basketball Association.
Analysing the dissimilarity of seasonal and team profiles within elite sport may reveal the evolutionary dynamics of game-play, while highlighting the similarity of individual team profiles.
Contrasting the game with both football and basketball, scholar Michael Mandelbaum argues that "baseball is the one closest in evolutionary descent to the older individual sports".
One of the main educational goals in the CS is to relate evolutionary biology to molecular biology (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2009).
If I had to take a guess, the ultimate explanation for our love of sports is rooted in our tribal nature, a byproduct of our evolutionary adulation for male-male competition (note that women's sports are rarely if ever accorded the same respect, never mind the overtly demeaning tradition of cheerleading).
It is part of the evolutionary trajectory that, with time, turns all hunting into sport.
