Brenda Bowser: Cal State Fullerton Department of AnthropologyThis paper examines the transmission of stylistic behavior in the community of Conambo. The people of Conambo are self-sufficient horticultural foragers who are […]
Daniel J. Kruger: University of Michigan School of Public HealthSex differences in human mortality rates stem from genetic, physiological, behavioral, and social causes that are best understood when integrated in […]
Paul Griffiths: University of Queensland Department of PhilosophyMany evolutionary processes have been described in which a trait that initially develops in the members of a population as a result of […]
Hillard Kaplan: University of New Mexico Department of AnthropologyThis paper will present an overview of age-specific mortality rates among hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturalists. It will also present new data on resource […]
Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell: Stanford University Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryThe structure of African elephant society is primarily matriarchal in nature, where dominant female elephants make decisions for the herd […]
Joan Silk: UCLA Department of Anthropology
Nicola S. Clayton: University of Cambridge Department of Experimental PsychologyAccording to the mental time travel hypothesis only humans can mentally dissociate themselves from the present, travelling backwards in time to […]
James Roney: UC Santa Barbara Department of PsychologyMenstrual cycle shifts in women's mate preferences have generally been interpreted as products of adaptations designed to alter behavior during the fertile window […]
Janet Sinsheimer: UCLA Departments of Human Genetics, Biomathematics and BiostatisticsBiological mechanisms involving a combination of genetic and environmental factors have been hypothesized to explain susceptibility to complex familial disease. I […]
Carl Lipo: CSU Long Beach Department of AnthropologyThe monumental statues (moai) of Easter Island represent substantial investment in cultural elaboration by the prehistoric islanders. Constructing explanations of these features requires […]
