Presentation

Kevin Langergraber: Arizona State UniversityMany animals carry out activities together because the benefits derived from collective action exceed those that can be achieved individually. But how can collective action evolve when individuals benefit from cooperation regardless of whether they pay its participation costs? According to one influential perspective, collective action problems are common, especially when […]

Claudia Valeggia: UC DavisThis talk will be about change and how we experience it. Humans go through several transitions during the course of their life. The transition from one life history phase to the next, e.g. from infancy to childhood or from reproductive to post-reproductive life, represents a physiological challenge as well as a sociocultural […]

Anita Stone: California Lutheran UniversityThe primate juvenile period has been considered a “limbo phase” with few evolutionary consequences, a view that has been challenged. In addition, it has been proposed that juvenility is a high-risk stage in which juveniles are at social and ecological disadvantages compared to adults in their group. Using field data from […]

Adrian Bell: University of UtahMost evolutionary ecological outcomes are highly sensitive to the nature of migration. The when, where, and how of migration are fundamental to evolutionary questions that anthropologists and others have tackled, though with varying levels of analytical rigor. In worst cases, migration is merely acknowledged as the elephant in the room. How […]