Jared Diamond: UCLA Dept. of GeographySome societies have suffered environmental collapses in the past (Easter Island, Angkor Wat, Anasazi, Classic Maya…), while others have remained intact for thousands of years […]
Carl Bergstrom: University of Washington Dept. of BiologyOver the past 3.5 billion years, biological organisms have evolved to acquire, process, store, and transmit information. How have organisms evolved to handle […]
Peter Gray : Charles Drew UniversityTwo hallmarks of human male reproductive strategies are the formation of long-term bonds with a mate and the provision of paternal care. These activities may, […]
Tim German: UCSB PsychologyThe human ability to make tools and use them to solve problems may not be zoologically unique, but it is certainly extraordinary. Yet little is known about […]
Ann Senghas: Barnard College of Columbia University, Dept. of PsychologyThe recent emergence of a new sign language among deaf children and adolescents in Nicaragua provides an opportunity to study how […]
Trent Smith: UCLA International InstituteThe economic theory of "rational addiction" posits that drug addiction can usefully be viewed as the outcome of an informed decision undertaken on the part of […]
Michael Rose: UC Irvine Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyHuman behavior is unlike that of all other known animal behavior in its high degree of flexibility and versatility. A problem […]
Olav Sorenson: UCLA Anderson School of ManagementStudies have consistently found that social structure influences who transacts with whom, and that actors appear to benefit when exchange occurs embedded within these […]
Patricia Churchland: UCSD Dept. of PhilosophyAlthough questions concerning the nature of free choice have long been at the center of philosophical reflection, new discoveries, especially from neuropharmacology and neuropsychology, have […]
Gary Marcus: NYU Dept. of PsychologyTwo of the most central questions in understanding the nature of the uniquely human talent for language are the extent to which the underlying neural […]
