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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241007T180000
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SUMMARY:Chimp Empire - A Screening and Panel Discussion with the Filmmakers [RSVP required; Note special time and location]
DESCRIPTION:Chimp Empire – A Screening and Panel Discussion with the Filmmakers\nFeaturing \nSara Edelson\nManager of Original Documentary Programming\, Netflix \nJames Reed\nDirector\, Chimp Empire \nJohn Mitani\nProfessor Emeritus of Anthropology\, University of Michigan \nmoderated by\nClark Barrett\nProfessor\, UCLA Department of Anthropology and\nDirector\, UCLA Center for Behavior\, Evolution and Culture \nand \nAbigail Bigham\nAssociate Professor\, UCLA Department of Anthropology\nVice Chair for Undergraduate Studies \n  \nReception to follow \nThis event is open to the public\, RSVP required. Please RSVP at: https://eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/ChimpEmpire/logon.aspx?NoID=Y
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/chimp-empire-a-screening-and-panel-discussion-with-the-filmmakers/
LOCATION:CNSI
CATEGORIES:2024,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T133000
DTSTAMP:20240214T185552Z
CREATED:20240103T220246Z
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UID:6960-1710158400-1710163800@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Holly Dunsworth - To Save Humankind\, Kill Off the Hero’s Journey of Human Evolution
DESCRIPTION:To Save Humankind\, Kill Off the Hero’s Journey of Human Evolution\nHolly Dunsworth\nUniversity of Rhode Island\nIn Narratives of Human Evolution\, Misia Landau revealed that late 19th and early 20th century fathers of human evolutionary theory\, including Charles Darwin\, unconsciously conformed their stories to the key structural elements of Russian folktales. Dunsworth argues that the enduring habit—within science\, academia\, and throughout popular culture—of projecting a hero’s journey onto lineages that blend and weave across deep time is fundamental to the perpetuation of untrue patriarchal and racist reconstructions of human origins and human nature\, which we continue to enact to our peril\, and to the planet’s. In this presentation\, Dunsworth breaks down the hero’s journey into its parts and compares them to contemporary human evolutionary biology. In the end\, the hero’s journey does not triumph. This presentation is based on a chapter in Dunsworth’s upcoming book (Viking/Penguin\, 2025).
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/holly-dunsworth-to-save-humankind/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:2024,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T133000
DTSTAMP:20240228T080341Z
CREATED:20240103T220143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240228T080341Z
UID:6957-1709553600-1709559000@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Patricia Greenfield
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Greenfield\nDistinguished Professor\, UCLA Department of Psychology\nAssociate\, Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\nA Theoretical and Empirical Approach to Cultural Evolution: Intergenerational Transmission\, Cognition\, and Creativity\nFor the theoretical approach\, I will present my multilevel theory of ecological change\, cultural evolution\, and human development. For the empirical evidence\, I will report findings from longitudinal study of a Zinacantec Maya community in Chiapas\, Mexico over a span of 43 years. This research has explored the intergenerational transmission of weaving\, cognitive development\, and creativity in three generations of mothers and children. From Generation 1 to Generation 2\, the main ecological change was the transition from subsistence agriculture to money and commerce. From Generation 2 to Generation 3\, the main ecological change was from informal education at home to formal education at school. In the domain of intergenerational transmission\, the first shift created more independent weaving learners; the second shift created more school-like transmission of weaving technique. Both ecological shifts moved cognition towards greater abstraction and creativity towards greater innovation. These ecological shifts also produced cultural losses: Fewer girls learning to weave on a backstrap loom\, less detail-oriented visual representation\, and the declining importance of traditional\, community-wide woven patterns. The processes of cultural evolution identified in this Maya community are similar to cultural shifts going on in many communities around the world\, communities have transitioned from subsistence ecologies to commercial\, urbanized\, and technologically more sophisticated environments.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/patricia_greenfield_a_theoretical_and_empirical_approach_to_cultural_evolution/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:2024,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240205T133000
DTSTAMP:20240201T220903Z
CREATED:20240103T215740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T220903Z
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SUMMARY:Jazlyn Mooney - On the Number of Genealogical Ancestors: Tracing to the Source Groups of an Admixed Population
DESCRIPTION:On the Number of Genealogical Ancestors: Tracing to the Source Groups of an Admixed Population\nJazlyn Mooney\nUSC\nIn genetically admixed populations\, admixed individuals possess ancestry from multiple source groups. Studies of human genetic admixture frequently estimate ancestry components corresponding to fractions of individual genomes that trace to specific ancestral populations. However\, the same numerical ancestry fraction can represent a wide array of admixture scenarios. Using a mechanistic model of admixture\, we characterize admixture genealogically: how many distinct ancestors from the source populations does the admixture represent? We consider African Americans\, for whom continent-level estimates produce a 75-85% value for African ancestry on average and 15-25% for European ancestry. Genetic studies together with key features of African-American demographic history suggest ranges for model parameters. Using the model\, we infer that if genealogical lineages of a random African American born during 1960-1965 are traced back until they reach members of source populations\, the expected number of genealogical lines terminating with African individuals is 314\, and the expected number terminating in Europeans is 51. Across discrete generations\, the peak number of African genealogical ancestors occurs for birth cohorts from the early 1700s. The probability exceeds 50% that at least one European ancestor was born more recently than 1835. Our genealogical perspective can contribute to further understanding the admixture processes that underlie admixed populations. For African Americans\, the results provide insight both on how many of the ancestors of a typical African American might have been forcibly displaced in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and on how many separate European admixture events might exist in a typical African-American genealogy.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/jazlyn-mooney-talk-title-tba/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:2024,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T170000
DTSTAMP:20220522T220936Z
CREATED:20220522T220936Z
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UID:6559-1654009200-1654016400@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Joe Manson - Nine years of research on life history strategy and individual differences\, or: How I learned to start worrying about constructs and instruments
DESCRIPTION:This is a special BEC talk in honor of the retirement of one of BEC‘s core faculty members\, Joe Manson. Please note the special time! Refreshments and snacks on the balcony of the anthropology department will follow Joe’s talk.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/joe-manson-nine-years-of-research-on-life-history-strategy-and-individual-differences-or-how-i-learned-to-start-worrying-about-constructs-and-instruments/
CATEGORIES:2022,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T133000
DTSTAMP:20220522T220704Z
CREATED:20220323T154639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T220704Z
UID:6496-1653307200-1653312600@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dietrich Stout - The Evolution of Technology
DESCRIPTION:For better or worse\, humans are now one of the major causal forces acting on the earth’s biosphere. Many would point to technology as the reason\, but what exactly is technology? In this lecture\, I will develop an evolutionarily grounded definition of technology that highlights three key features: material production\, social collaboration\, and cultural reproduction. Using examples from my own lab’s studies of stone tool making\, I will argue that these features implicate a wide range of perceptual\, motor\, and cognitive capacities as well as multiple channels of cultural inheritance and biocultural evolutionary processes. This perspective blurs presumed distinctions between social and individual learning that have shaped formal modeling approaches to cultural evolution. In so doing it calls into question the idea that one key capacity\, event\, or evolutionary Rubicon initiated cumulative technological evolution and a pattern of sustained autocatalytic biocultural feedback in human evolution. This interpretation is consistent with growing paleoanthropological and archaeological evidence of the multi-lineal\, intermittent\, asynchronous course of human evolution\, and presents a view of technological evolution as a complex and contingent process spanning a scale from neurons to societies and beyond. Nevertheless\, some synthesis may be possible with respect to a smaller number of recurring processes and relationships. In this vein\, I advance a “Perceptual Motor Hypothesis” proposing that human technological cognition has been evolutionarily and developmentally constructed from ancient primate perceptual-motor systems for body awareness and engagement with the world. Testing such hypotheses will require a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to identify patterned relations between contexts\, mechanisms\, and functions across diverse technological systems.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/dietrich-stout-the-evolutionary-neuroscience-of-cultural-evolution/
CATEGORIES:2022,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220516T133000
DTSTAMP:20220511T035157Z
CREATED:20220323T154513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220511T035157Z
UID:6493-1652702400-1652707800@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Richard Wrangham - Hunter-Gatherers\, Homo duplex and the Evolution of Human Groupishness
DESCRIPTION:Groupishness is a tendency to commit prosocial acts for which the pathway to\ncompensatory fitness benefits is unpredictable. It is unique to humans\, and its evolution is\nnot well understood. A difficulty is that the adaptive value of groupishness comes from\nindirect reciprocity\, which is hard to explain in societies that contain power asymmetries\nsuch that a dominant can appropriate resources at will. To date the only solution is Boehm’s\nproposal\, namely that morality was favored because allied males were selected to use\ncoercive behavior first to eliminate tyrants\, then subsequently to favor prosociality and\npunish antisociality. Using information on self-domestication\, a topic that Boehm did not\nexplore\, I present several tests of Boehm’s thesis. All are supportive\, while also modifying\nBoehm’s ideas. I conclude that a major increase in evolved groupishness began with the\norigin of Homo sapiens and the ability to execute tyrants. This process generated Homo\nduplex\, including the uniquely human tension between selfishness and duty seen in hunter-\ngatherers and other societies.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/richard-wrangham/
CATEGORIES:2022,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T133000
DTSTAMP:20220509T182728Z
CREATED:20220323T154410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T182728Z
UID:6490-1652097600-1652103000@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jaimie Krems - Tackling Friendship: Appraising\, Finding\, Getting\, and Keeping Partners
DESCRIPTION:Friends have recurrently provided social\, material\, and emotional support—helping humans meet a range of recurrent challenges tributary to fitness. But friendships are not the first type of relationship that comes to mind when thinking about research in social psychology or evolutionary social science. Moreover\, when friendships are the focus\, work typically foregrounds the friendship dyad. Taking an evolutionary approach suggests a different natural ecology for friendship psychology—one that implies the challenges of friendship are more and more complex than we might typically consider them to be. Perhaps\, then\, the challenges one must solve to reap the benefits of friendship should be thought of not (only) as two-person games\, so to speak\, but (also) as n-person games. I illustrate this by exploring several major friendship challenges—identifying good friends\, competing for friends\, and maintaining friendships. I also propose and test some of the possible means by which our social minds might meet these challenges\, toward ultimately maximizing the benefits and minimizing the costs of our sociality. \nhttps://www.kremslab.com/
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/jaime-krems-tackling-friendship-appraising-finding-getting-and-keeping-partners/
CATEGORIES:2022,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T133000
DTSTAMP:20220429T045735Z
CREATED:20220323T154256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T045735Z
UID:6487-1651492800-1651498200@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sasha Kimel - Meatborne Xenophobia: Understanding When Disgust Fuels Outgroup Hate
DESCRIPTION:Given that animal-borne pathogens pose especially high disease risks and\, moreover\, that a growing body of research suggests that the evolved function of disgust is the avoidance of disease\, it is largely unsurprising that the consumption of non-normative meat would evoke strong disgust reactions. Yet\, it is largely unclear whether and when concerns about disease can also evoke negative reactions to third-parties who engage in such norm-violations. In a series of experiments\, participants in the U.S. were randomly assigned to learn about cuisine from another culture (i.e.\, fabricated and real) that contained a meat that was either relatively neutral (i.e.\, beef)\, disgusting due to disease threat (i.e.\, rat) or disgusting due to a combination of disease threat and the immorality of causing a cared-for animal harm (i.e.\, dog\, monkey). Our results suggest that disgust may only exacerbate negative judgements and behaviors towards third-parties when the disease threat also has a strong immorality component (e.g.\, eating of dogs but not rats) and\, moreover\, that this may increase depending on how cared-for the being is. Implications for theories on disgust\, compassion and third-party punishment will be addressed.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/sasha-kimel-meatborne-xenophobia-understanding-when-disgust-fuels-outgroup-hate/
CATEGORIES:2022,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T233000
DTSTAMP:20220420T204926Z
CREATED:20220323T154100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T204926Z
UID:6484-1650888000-1650929400@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Luke Premo - How Cultural Evolutionary Forces Affect Regional Variation in Structured Populations and the Archaeological Assemblages They Leave Behind
DESCRIPTION:Paleolithic archaeologists have employed expectations generated from models developed in evolutionary anthropology to aid in the investigation of the origins of high-fidelity cultural transmission. Based on the notion that copying error ought to yield high levels of between-group cultural variation under unbiased cultural transmission\, archaeologists have interpreted ostensibly “lower-than-expected” levels of cultural variation among regional archaeological assemblages as evidence of widespread conformist biased transmission. But a closer inspection of cultural evolutionary theory suggests the expectation that unbiased transmission yields high between-group differentiation holds only for a narrow\, idealized set of conditions that are likely to be violated in empirical cases. Additionally\, it is unclear how or if this expectation translates to time-averaged assemblages of artifacts even under special conditions. I’ve developed a relatively simple agent-based model of cultural transmission in a structured population to improve our understanding of how cultural evolutionary forces affect between-group variation in a selectively neutral discrete trait under a wide range of conditions. My experimental design addresses how intergroup transmission and copying error affect regional cultural variation under four different mechanisms of cultural transmission (unbiased\, vertical\, conformist\, or prestige biased) and two different models of copying error (finite or infinite variants). I quantify cultural differentiation not only between groups in a structured population but also between time-averaged assemblages of culture material. The results highlight three points: 1) there are many conditions—not just widespread conformity—in which one should expect relatively low variation among semi-\, or even completely\, isolated groups (and the archaeological assemblages they create through time) despite the effects of copying error\, 2) the way in which intergroup transmission and copying error affect between-group (and between-assemblage) variation varies among cultural transmission mechanisms\, and 3) time-averaging affects between-assemblage variation differently under different cultural transmission mechanisms. Considering these findings\, I propose a list of questions one should answer before attempting to infer mechanisms of cultural transmission from time-averaged archaeological assemblages. Answers to these questions will help researchers better match expectations of regional cultural variation with the empirical case at hand. \n  \nhttps://anthro.wsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/luke-premo/
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/luke-premo-how-cultural-evolutionary-forces-affect-regional-variation-in-structured-populations-and-the-archaeological-assemblages-they-leave-behind/
CATEGORIES:2022,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T133000
DTSTAMP:20220414T202620Z
CREATED:20220323T153443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T202620Z
UID:6477-1649678400-1649683800@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:James Higham - Insights into Life-History from the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques
DESCRIPTION:We humans come from a diverse order\, the primates\, which make excellent model systems for studying the interface between the biological and the social. In this talk\, I focus on our long-running field studies of the rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago\, Puerto Rico. Decades of individual-based demographic data allow us to explore variation in life history\, including the impacts of interbirth intervals and infant birth weights on infant survival\, and both the development and senescence of reproduction in the same individuals across the lifespan. Our studies leverage behavioral observations\, cognitive experiments\, physiological measures\, genomic and transcriptomic data from blood and tissues\, measurements of soft-tissues and skeletons\, microbiome samples\, and more. I show how long-term integrative study allows us to explore the interactions between the biological and the social from two perspectives: bottom-up and top-down. From the bottom-up perspective\, we are beginning to ask how variation in the genome and epigenome\, via the transcriptome\, constructs cellular\, tissue- and organ-level biology in individuals\, and in turn\, how individual-level behaviors structure societies and populations. From the top-down perspective\, we study how variation in the social environment can get under the skin and impact health and disease. I finish by discussing the Anthropocene\, and by demonstrating the top-down effects of climate change-linked natural disasters on rhesus macaque societies\, and on individual health via effects on the transcriptome. Combining approaches from behavioral ecology\, physiology\, quantitative genetics\, genomics and transcriptomics\, computer vision\, and comparative psychology\, this talk is part demonstration of the value of integrative research\, and part love-letter to long-term field studies. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/james-higham-insights-into-life-history-from-the-cayo-santiago-rhesus-macaques/
CATEGORIES:2022,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T133000
DTSTAMP:20220420T214526Z
CREATED:20220323T153237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T214526Z
UID:6474-1649073600-1649079000@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kelsey McCune - Space Use\, Exploratory Behavior and Rapid Range Expansion in Great-Tailed Grackles
DESCRIPTION:Humans are rapidly changing the natural world\, leading to decreasing native fauna and increasing non-native fauna.  Problematic species range expansions are occurring across the globe\, but not all species are able to become established outside of their original range.  It is still unclear which characteristics facilitate successful invasions or native species persistence in human-modified environments.  One hypothesis is that variation in behavior may be important when certain individuals possess traits that make them more likely to succeed when venturing into new habitats and outcompeting heterospecifics.  For example\, variation in the ability (movement) and motivation (exploratory tendency) to encounter conspecifics and novel food sources could facilitate range expansions.  However\, no previous research has compared measures of exploration to the natural movement behavior of individuals along the range of a currently invading species.  In this talk I will discuss my research on movement and exploratory behaviors in a species that has rapidly expanded its range in the U.S.\, the great-tailed grackle. I consider whether individuals consistently differ in their movement behavior such that it can be considered an inherent individual trait\, whether movement relates to performance on an exploration task\, and whether movement and exploration differ between grackles in the center of the range and those on the invasion front.  Invasive species are implicated as a leading cause of biodiversity loss\, so this research will facilitate a better understanding of the importance of these behavioral characteristics in predicting potential invasions in other systems. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/kelsey-mccune-space-use-exploratory-behavior-and-rapid-range-expansion-in-great-tailed-grackles/
CATEGORIES:2022,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220328T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220328T133000
DTSTAMP:20220323T152929Z
CREATED:20220323T152929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220323T152929Z
UID:6471-1648468800-1648474200@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lisa O'Bryan - Communication and the Coordination of Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups
DESCRIPTION:Lisa O’Bryan\, Rice University \nIn order to obtain social benefits\, individuals must remain cohesive\, coordinate their behavior\, and collectively process information. The field of collective behavior focuses on understanding how group-wide properties such as these emerge from the interactions of many individuals. Most studies of collective behavior examine how coordination is achieved through visual cues about others’ positions and behavior. However\, in many complex social and ecological environments\, communication can be critical for achieving successful outcomes since many signals have evolved to advertise location\, express motivational state and share information. My research focuses on how vocal communication both influences\, and is influenced by\, individual and group-wide properties\, with the aim of better understanding the behavioral mechanisms underlying the successful (and unsuccessful) functioning of social groups. I study this topic using technology to obtain detailed\, continuous measurements of individual behaviors and interactions in both non-human and human social groups. In this talk I will review my work using wearable dataloggers to study how vocalizations influence the collective movements of domesticated herds and wild baboons. I will also discuss current studies focused on the role conversational turn-taking plays in the decision-making and collective intelligence of human teams. The long-term goal of my research program is to gain new insights into the function and evolution of communication systems involved in the mediation of collective behaviors and how we can engineer communication systems within our own societies to produce more favorable group-wide outcomes.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/lisa-obryan-communication-and-the-coordination-of-collective-behavior-in-non-human-and-human-social-groups/
CATEGORIES:2022,Presentation,Upcoming Presentation
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220307T133000
DTSTAMP:20220304T051853Z
CREATED:20211129T172927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T051853Z
UID:6379-1646654400-1646659800@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Federico Rossano - Interacting like a human being: a developmental and comparative perspective on calibrating requests
DESCRIPTION:In his paper on the “human interaction engine”\, Levinson famously asserted that\, in social interaction\, people’s responses “are to actions and intentions\, not to behaviors” (2006: 45). Indeed human beings attribute intentions/goals to the production of signals and parsing other’s signals means simulating others’ mental worlds\, at least to some degree.  But how do speakers calibrate their interactional moves in first position so that they are more likely to elicit their preferred response? Which variables do they take into account? \nIn this talk I present observational and experimental data on how human (children and adults) and non-human primates (chimpanzees\, bonobos and orangutans) calibrate requests for actions and for objects. I will discuss the roles of prospection\, entitlement and accountability in the calibration of requests and outline to what degree non-human primates share with humans cognitive abilities that allow for a flexible assessment of when\, how and to whom to deliver requests. I will also show where the critical differences lie. In doing so\, I will show what it means to interact like a human being. \nFederico Rossano\nUCSD Cognitive Science\nhttps://cogsci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/federico-rossano.html
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/frederico-rossano/
CATEGORIES:2022,Upcoming Presentation
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220228T133000
DTSTAMP:20220211T170615Z
CREATED:20211129T172802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T170615Z
UID:6376-1646049600-1646055000@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Hobson - Dominance hierarchies\, fight decisions\, and social support as windows into animal social cognition
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Hobson\nUniversity of Cincinnati\nhttp://hobsonresearch.com/
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/elizabeth-hobson/
CATEGORIES:2022,Upcoming Presentation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220214T133000
DTSTAMP:20220119T182626Z
CREATED:20211129T172649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T182626Z
UID:6373-1644840000-1644845400@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Helen Davis - Culture\, Cultural Change\, and Cognitive Development
DESCRIPTION:What does cognitive development look like in a world without schools or formally educated parents or communities? What if our most fundamental measures of cognitive performance were influenced by small amounts of schooling or by having parents\, siblings or others who attended schools in one’s household or community? Growing evidence suggests that the human mind is shaped by the socially and culturally incentivized institutions it is exposed to during our unusually long childhood. Yet\, many contemporary theories of early learning capacities and cognition are drawn from samples where formal schooling\, a prolific cultural institution\, has been nearly ubiquitous for at least a century. In such novel environments\, the impact of formal schooling on cognition and learning can easily be confused with species-wide maturational processes. This talk will discuss research focused on fundamental aspects of cognition and the institutions and cultural transitions shaping them using findings from two unique\, ongoing studies in Amazonia\, Bolivia and in the Namib Desert of Namibia and Angola. Additionally\, this talk will address growing challenges associated with cross-cultural research\, as well as the need for a conscientious commitment to participant communities. \nHelen Davis\nHarvard University\nhttps://helen-elizabeth-davis.com/
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/helen-davis/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Presentation
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