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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jon Haidt: University of Virginia Department of PsychologyMorality has long been thought to come from outside – from God, society, or parents – into children, who are empty vessels. In […]
Richard McElreath: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyCultural evolution is driven in part by the strategies individuals employ to acquire behavior from others. These strategies themselves are partly products of natural […]
Dwight Read: UCLA Department of AnthropologyA long standing issue in human societies has been the relationship between culture and behavior. One extreme position views culture as arising primarily out of […]
