Joan Silk – Sex Ratio: Local Resource Competition and Local Resource Enhancement
Joan Silk: UCLA Department of Anthropology
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Nicola S. Clayton – Memories of Tomorrow: Do Animals Remember the Past and Plan for the Future?
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 – Preliminary data testing an alternative explanation for menstrual phase effects on women’s mate preferences
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 – Family Feuds: Maternal-Fetal Genotype Incompatibility
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 – Resolution of the Cultural Phylogenies of Monumental Statues on Easter Island
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 […]
Stacey Rucas – Allies and Rivals: The Complex world of women’s social dynamics among the Tsimane of Bolivia
Stacey Rucas: California Polytechnic State University Department of Social SciencesThis research examines the complexity of women's social behaviors with other women through various modes of evolutionary inquiry and methods. Results […]
Alison Gopnik – Causal maps and Bayes nets: Causal inference and theory formation in children, scientists and computers
Alison Gopnik: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyHow do we accurately infer the causal structure of the world around us? Thirty years of developmental research has shown that human children form […]
Hanna Kokko – Love and hatred in a world of feedback
Hanna Kokko: University of Helsinki Department of Biological and Environmental SciencesI will present results on both `love´ (sexual selection) and `hatred´ (territorial conflict). In both cases I will investigate the […]
Mark Kleiman – Maximizing cooperation while minimizing punishment
Mark Kleiman: UCLA Department of Public PolicyThe threat of punishment can facilitate cooperation by discouraging defection and aggression. Because punishment is scarce, costly, and painful, optimal enforcement strategies will minimize […]
Mary Towner – Investigating cultural macroevolution and trait transmission in the Western North American Indian database
Mary Towner: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyCultural traits are distributed across human societies in a patterned way. Study of the mechanisms whereby cultural traits persist and change over time is […]