Leeat Yariv – Conformity In The Lab
Leeat Yariv: Caltech Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Department of EconomicsIn this talk, I will briefly survey the existing literature on social learning and conformity (both theoretical and […]
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Terrence Deacon – Devo-Devo: How Relaxed Selection Can Contribute To The Evolution And Self-Organization Of Complexity
Terrence Deacon: UC Berkeley Department of AnthropologyAlthough biologists have long recognized examples of regressive processes in evolution as well as a role for regressive processes in the development of brains, […]
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Peter Whybrow – American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
Peter Whybrow: UCLA David Geffen School of MedicineDr. Whybrow poses the question, “Are we Americans becoming the first addicts of the technological age?†Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more […]
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Jeffrey Davis – Fisher’s Sociological Imagination
Jeffrey Davis: California State University Long Beach Department of SociologyFisher is widely known for his extraordinary contributions to population genetics and evolutionary biology. His sociological insights have received far less […]
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Chris Guzelian – Evolution, Selfish Lies, and Free Speech
Chris Guzelian: Searle Scholar, Northwestern University School of LawEvidence increasingly suggests that selection between competing ideas to become a prevailing social belief may be strongly influenced by evolutionarily descended limitations […]
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Joseph Campos – On the Epigenesis of Fear in the Human Infant
Joseph Campos: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyThere is a fascinating paradox about fear of heights in humans and some animal species. Such fear has enormous biological adaptive value, represents a […]
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Nancy Burley – Sexual Imprinting: New Approaches to an Old Problem
Nancy Burley: UC Irvine Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologySexual imprinting, a process by which early contact with parents shapes the mate preferences of developing young, has been widely documented […]
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Michael Shermer – Evonomics: Natural Selection, the Invisible Hand, and the New Science of Evolutionary Economics
Michael Shermer: Skeptic MagazineThere are a number of parallels between evolution and economics that we shall explore on two tiers—historical and theoretical: the parallels between natural selection and the invisible […]
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Bruce Winterhalder – Seven Reasons to Remain a Forager
Bruce Winterhalder: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyArchaeological research shows that many human populations continued to hunt-and-gather for thousands of years after beginning the use of plant domesticates. This kind of […]
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Robert Hoffmann – Religion, Religiosity and Cooperation: An Experimental Study from Malaysia
Robert Hoffmann: Department of Economics, Nottingham University Business School, The University of NottinghamHuntington's notion of a clash of cultures has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. In […]