Lauren Schroeder: University of Toronto Mississauga Our genus is characterized by a significant amount of morphological diversity, a phenomenon at the heart of the longstanding debate surrounding the origin and […]
Michael Gurven: University of California, Santa BarbaraSex differences in human mortality and health are widely documented in both low and high income countries. Usual explanations focus on differences in intrinsic […]
Sarah Mathew: Arizona State UniversityExplaining why humans cooperate in sizable groups requires detailed knowledge of how people cooperate in politically uncentralized societies. I will present findings from the Turkana, a […]
Darby Saxbe: University of Southern CaliforniaBecoming a parent is transformative. This talk will review recent research on neuroendocrine and behavioral changes in new parents, including studies of longitudinal change and […]
Robert Kurzban : University of Pennsylvania Evolutionary psychologists are committed to the view that form follows function. This commitment carries an epistemic corollary: if a mechanism with a proposed function does not […]
Tamsin German: University of California, Santa BarbaraI will discuss research conducted in my lab assessing recent proposals that complex human cultural concepts such as acquired scientific knowledge and religious belief […]
Anne Pisor : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyRelative to non-human primates, humans are heavily reliant on social connections beyond the boundaries of their local communities. However, individuals vary in the […]
Carolyn Parkinson: University of California, Los AngelesThe cognitive demands of navigating large groups comprised of many varied and enduring social bonds are thought to have significantly shaped human brain evolution. […]
Ara Norenzayan: University of British ColumbiaThe rise of large-scale cooperation and the spread of parochial-prosocial religions in the last 12 millennia are two longstanding puzzles, one of human psychology, and […]
Julian Kapoor: Cornell UniversityAmong animals that develop signals through social learning, dialects – shared signals among a subset of individuals within a larger population – are nearly ubiquitous. Despite the […]
