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May 2019

Mon 6
May 6, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Lee Gettler – The biology of fatherhood in context: Evolutionary origins, cross-cultural perspectives, and implications for men’s health

Lee Gettler: University of Notre DameHuman males have a flexible psychobiological capacity to respond to committed parenting with shifts in hormones such as testosterone, prolactin, and oxytocin. These findings hint […]

Mon 13
May 13, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Brian Wood – Hadza hunter-gatherer movement ecology and the sexual division of labor

Brian Wood: University of California, Los AngelesHumans think about, explore, and use landscapes like no other species, reflecting our unique biological and cultural adaptations. One of these adaptations, observed in […]

Fri 17
May 17, 2019 @ 12:00 am

James Liu – Collective Remembering across Generations and across Cultures: Evidence for National Narrative Templates, Developmental Variants, and Global Anchors

James Liu: Massey University, New ZealandWhat is universal, what is characteristic of national political culture, and what is regionally influenced in the “living memory” of national history for people around […]

Mon 20
May 20, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Courtney Meehan – 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 […]

June 2019

Mon 3
June 3, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Kotrina Kajokaite – Testing hypotheses about social cognition with observational data: coalitions in white-faced capuchin monkeys

Kotrina Kajokaite: University of California, Los AngelesCoalitionary recruitment offers a window into animal social cognition. However, naturally observed coalitionary conflicts are challenging to analyze because the researcher has no control […]

September 2019

Mon 30
September 30, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Kristi Lewton – Birth, bipedalism, and the evolution of the human hip

Kristi Lewton: University of Southern CaliforniaLocomotion, gestation, and childbirth have had a significant impact on human culture and biology, including the morphology of the human hip. One of the most […]

October 2019

Mon 7
October 7, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Brooke Scelza – Husband, Lover, Pater, Genitor: Paternity and concurrency in northwest Namibia

Brooke Scelza: University of California, Los AngelesResearch on human mate preferences has been conducted mainly in industrialized societies, where multiple mating and concurrent partnerships are heavily stigmatized. However, cross-culturally, extra-pair […]

Mon 14
October 14, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Lynette Shaw – Cognition, Culture, and Complexity: Modeling the Emergence of Shared Social Realities from Individual Mental Representation

Lynette Shaw: University of MichiganThe cultures we belong to affect far more than our practices and beliefs - they also fundamentally shape how we perceive the world, each other, and […]

Mon 21
October 21, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Terry Deacon – On Human (Symbolic) Nature: How the Word Became Flesh.

Terry Deacon: University of California, BerkeleyAbstract: The concept of human nature has been challenged by social scientists because of its inability to clearly delineate the distinction between the biologically inherited […]

Mon 28
October 28, 2019 @ 12:00 am

Tao Gao – Modeling Theory of Mind for Competition, Cooperation and Communication

Tao Gao: University of California, Los AngelesTheory of mind (ToM) refers to the attribution of an agent’s motion to its mental states, including belief, desire and intention. Modeling ToM is […]

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