The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is a society for all those studying the evolution of human behavior. Scientific perspectives range from evolutionary psychology to evolutionary anthropology and cultural evolution. The society’s worldwide membership includes researchers from a range of disciplines in the social and biological sciences.

HBES hosts an annual conference that provides a forum exploring current research in the field. The conference offers invited plenary presentations from leading scientists.

The official journal of HBES is Evolution and Human Behavior, an interdisciplinary journal presenting research reports and theory in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior.

HBES has a number of awards that members are eligible for each year. There are four Society Awards: the Early Career Award for Distinguish Scientific Contribution (one winner, <10 years post-PhD), the Lifetime Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution (one winner, entire career), the Rising Star Awards (multiple winners possible, <8 years post-PhD), and the HBES Fellows (multiple winners possible, >10 years post-PhD). There are two Paper Awards: the Margo Wilson Award for the best paper published in Evolution & Human Behavior in the previous year as decided by the editors, and the Don Symons Adaptationism Award for the best paper in any journal in the previous three years that best exemplifies the adaptationist program . Three further Conference Awards are made during the annual conference, the New Investigator Award, the Post-Doctoral Research Award and the Best Poster Award.