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 […]
Neil Tsutsui: UC Irvine Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyCultural evolution is driven in part by the strategies individuals employ to acquire behavior from others. These strategies themselves are partly […]
Joanna Mountain: Stanford University Department of Anthropological SciencesIn the 1960's linguist Joseph Greenberg classified all languages spoken primarily in Africa into four families. One of those families, Khoisan, includes not […]
Kang Lee: UC San Diego Department of PsychologyIn this talk, I will present three sets of studies that examined children’s lying: (a) to conceal their own transgression, (b) to be […]
Mark Kleiman: UCLA Department of Public Policy1. Dominance hierarchies help resolve conflicts over resources with a minimum of actual combat by giving the higher-ranking individual priority. To some extent, then, […]
