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 […]
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 […]
Rob Boyd: UCLA Dept. of Anthropology
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stephen Stich: Rutgers Dept. of PhilosophyThe talk has three parts: In Part I, I will sketch a hotly debated question in moral philosophy. Roughly stated, the issue in dispute is […]
Christine Harris: UC San Diego Dept. of PsychologyThe specific innate modular theory of jealousy (JSIM) hypothesizes that men are innately prone to upset over a mate’s sexual infidelity and women, […]
