Elizabeth Hobson – Dominance hierarchies, fight decisions, and social support as windows into animal social cognition
Elizabeth Hobson University of Cincinnati http://hobsonresearch.com/
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Federico Rossano – Interacting like a human being: a developmental and comparative perspective on calibrating requests
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 […]
Lisa O’Bryan – Communication and the Coordination of Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups
Lisa O'Bryan, Rice University In 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 […]
Kelsey McCune – Space Use, Exploratory Behavior and Rapid Range Expansion in Great-Tailed Grackles
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 […]
James Higham – Insights into Life-History from the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques
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 […]
Luke Premo – How Cultural Evolutionary Forces Affect Regional Variation in Structured Populations and the Archaeological Assemblages They Leave Behind
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 […]
Sasha Kimel – Meatborne Xenophobia: Understanding When Disgust Fuels Outgroup Hate
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 […]
Jaimie Krems – Tackling Friendship: Appraising, Finding, Getting, and Keeping Partners
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 […]
Richard Wrangham – Hunter-Gatherers, Homo duplex and the Evolution of Human Groupishness
Groupishness is a tendency to commit prosocial acts for which the pathway to compensatory fitness benefits is unpredictable. It is unique to humans, and its evolution is not well understood. […]
Dietrich Stout – The Evolution of Technology
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 […]