The Human Behavior and Evolution Society’s roundtable discussion, “Beyond WEIRD, a decade later: Population diversity in the evolutionary study of human behavior”, featuring BEC’s Brooke Scelza and Clark Barrett, is […]
A series of seven online talks on Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, open-access and live streamed: Oxford Evolutionary Medicine Seminar Series
BEC faculty Greg Bryant interviewed on All Things Considered by NPR’s Audie Cornish, on people’s ability to judge friendship from the sound of laughter: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922375817/the-sound-of-laughter-can-be-key-in-determining-people-s-relationships
An online discussion on the question “What happened to cognitive science?”, hosted by the Italian Association of Cognitive Science, featuring BEC’s Clark Barrett and UCSD’s Rafael Núñez. 7:30-11AM PST on […]
Jordan Kiper, former UCLA postdoc and now Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, wrote about the UCLA-based Geography of Philosophy Project for Anthropology News: Knowing Across Cultures
In January, BEC faculty and Bedari Kindness Institute Director Dan Fessler was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on the health benefits of kindness–a message that is as important now as […]
An interview in Science magazine with BEC faculty Erica Cartmill on her new research with Johanna Eckert and Sasha Winkler on playful teasing in apes: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/playful-teasing-apes-could-provide-clues-evolutionary-roots-early-humor The original article, in […]
BEC faculty Brooke Scelza and Clark Barrett will participate in a Roundtable Seminar hosted by the Human Behavior and Evolution Society entitled “Beyond WEIRD, a decade later: Population diversity in […]
See below for an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA. If you are interested in applying for a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in affiliation with BEC, please feel […]
An interview with UCLA’s Daniel Blumstein about his groundbreaking new book that discusses the ancient roots of fear, its costs and benefits, and why we’re all afraid of something: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/202009/the-nature-fear-survival-lessons-the-wild […]
