Dan Blumstein – The Sound of Fear
Dan Blumstein: University of California, Los AngelesWhat makes certain sounds scary? I will describe insights gained from over three decades of studying alarm calls and fear screams in marmots (which […]
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Angela Garcia – The Embodiment of Stress: Do diurnal cortisol-immune interactions and parasitic infection moderate social influences on health among immigrant women on Utila?
Angela Garcia: Arizona State University Cardiometabolic diseases (e.g. heart disease and diabetes) are the leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Diabetes, for example, will double in the next 30 […]
Nandita Garud – The Bacteria Evolving Within Us
Nandita Garud: University of California, Los AngelesThe human gut microbiome is comprised of a complex ecosystem of microbes that reside inside of us and play an important role in our […]
Courtney Meehan – [CANCELED] The social worlds of infants, moms, and microbes
Courtney Meehan: Washington State University Throughout our evolutionary history, and in much of the world today, human infancy has been characterized by a host of ancestral traits which include frequent […]
Melanie Martin – Human infant feeding: evolved strategies, individual optimums, and public health
Melanie Martin: University of WashingtonAcross past and present human populations, breastfeeding and weaning practices have been demonstrably varied. Though this variation is largely influenced by ecological and socioeconomic factors, comparative […]
Josh Snodgrass – Life history tradeoffs between childhood growth and immune function among Shuar forager-horticulturalists of Amazonian Ecuador
Josh Snodgrass: University of OregonImmune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that can divert calories and other resources away from less immediately essential life history functions such as growth. […]
Dan Hruschka – What does it mean to replicate studies in a cultural species?
Dan Hruschka: Arizona State University Replicating a study among our fellow humans requires a researcher to interact with study participants according to protocols that are comparable with previous studies. However, […]
Raziel Davison – Evolutionary Retrospectives on the Human Life History Trajectory
Raziel Davison: University of California, Santa Barbara We investigate human life history evolution by comparing smallscale subsistence societies and chimpanzees to identify the roles that fertility and mortality play in […]
Ashley Hazel – Ecological dynamics of sexually transmitted infections among Namibian pastoralists
Ashley Hazel: Stanford UniversityPopulations that are dependent upon physical environments for their immediate livelihoods utilize subsistence strategies that are both well adapted to predictable environmental variability (e.g., seasonality) and resilient […]
Alexandra Binder – Epigenetics and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Alexandra Binder: University of California, Los AngelesThere is extensive epidemiologic and experimental evidence linking early life conditions to adult health. Epigenetic modifications are suspected to play a role in mediating […]