Ted Bergstrom – On the Economics of Polygyny
Ted Bergstrom: UCSB Department of EconomicsAbout 80% of all societies recorded by anthropologists are polygynous (men have many wives). Even our own society is less monogamous than claimed. This paper […]
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Andrew Shaner – Schizophrenia: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Andrew Shaner: David Geffen UCLA School of MedicineSchizophrenia should not exist. It crushes sexual relationships and reproductive success and thus should have been eliminated long ago by selection. Yet it […]
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Yaniv Hanoch – Emotions, boundedly rational agents and the fast and frugal perspective
Yaniv Hanoch: UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Health ServicesHerbert Simon has warned us that an explanatory account of human rationality must identify the significance of emotions for choice […]
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Alan Grafen – Do animals really maximise their inclusive fitness?
Alan Grafen: University of Oxford Department of ZoologyMost fieldworkers and empirical biologists studying whole organisms use as a working hypothesis that organisms have been designed by natural selection to maximise […]
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Fiona Cowie – Language Genes, Language Organs and Language Evolution
Fiona Cowie: California Institute of Technology Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesThe recent identification of the so-called 'grammar gene,' FOXP2, as well as recent advances in our understanding of […]
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Francis Steen – The role of consciousness in learning from simulations
Francis Steen: UCLA Department of Communication StudiesI argued in Steen & Owens (2001) that play is a behavioral and cognitive simulation whose biological function is learning. In this presentation, I […]
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William Rice – Reproductive interactions between the sexes: arms-race or mutualistic coevolution?
William Rice: UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine BiologyThe empirical foundation for sexual conflict theory is the unequivocal data from many different taxa demonstrating that females are harmed while […]
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Michael Sockol – Investigating the Origins of Hominid Bipedalism
Michael Sockol: UC Davis Department of Anthropology The origin of the human family, Hominidae, has been a primary focus of paleoanthropologists for more than a century. Indeed, the desire to […]
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Dan Blumstein – The evolution, function and meaning of alarm communication in marmots
Dan Blumstein: UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution Many prey species signal when they encounter a predator. For over a decade I've used anti-predator communication as a model […]
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David Reznick – The evolution of placentas in the Poeciliid fishes: An empirical study of macroevolution
David Reznick: UC Riverside Department of BiologyAn unanswered question in biology is “how do complex traits evolve?â€. This question endures as an area of controversy because of a paucity of […]