Gary Marcus – Language in the era of the Genome
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 […]
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Jerome Siegel – The Phylogeny of Mammalian Sleep
Jerome Siegel: UCLA Dept. of PsychiatrySleep amounts vary by more than an order of magnitude across mammalian species. Either the amount of time spent sleeping has no relation to underlying […]
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Chris Boehm – Two Anthropological Models for Understanding Global Conflict Resolution
Chris Boehm: USC Dept. of AnthropologyChimpanzees and human hunter-gatherers are taken as models which help to explain our troubled world of nations, which in many ways is like a chimpanzee […]
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Aimee Plourde – The Evolution of Prestige Good Economies and the Origins of Sociopolitical Complexity
Aimee Plourde: UCLA Dept. of AnthropologyThe emergence of social ranking and political hierarchy in human society constituted a fundamental departure from the small, egalitarian group structure thought to characterize society […]
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Rob Boyd – The Evolution of Contingent Cooperation
Rob Boyd: UCLA Dept. of Anthropology
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Jim Sidanius – Individual and Institutional Congruence in the Reproduction of Group-based Social Hierarchy: A Social Dominance Perspective
Jim Sidanius: UCLA Dept. of PsychologyBased upon ideas borrowed from classical elitism theory, social identity theory and evolutionary psychology, social dominance theory basically assumes that human social systems are predisposed […]
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Greg Bryant – Social and linguistic functions of prosodic cues in speech: an evolutionary approach
Greg Bryant: UCSC Dept. of PsychologyDuring speech communication, conversationalists produce and understand many simultaneous pieces of information through prosodic features of the voice (i.e., pitch, loudness, and duration properties). Prosodic […]
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Alan Dixson – Sperm competition, mammalian reproduction, and human evolution
Alan Dixson: Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San DiegoThis talk focuses upon the structure and functions of the reproductive organs of mammals, as viewed from the […]
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Lynn Stout – Other-Regarding Behavior and the Law
Lynn Stout: UCLA School of LawLegal scholars have become keenly interested in behavioral approaches to lawthat recognize that real people do not always behave in a selfishly rational fashion: numerous […]
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Nancy K. Dess – Violence and Its Antidotes: Promises and Pitfalls of Evolutionarily Aware Policy Development
Nancy K. Dess: Occidental CollegeGlimpses at our primate relatives and diverse human cultures provide prima facie evidence that as a species, we are capable of far more benevolent, just, and […]