John Mikhail: Georgetown LawScientists from various disciplines have begun to focus renewed attention on the psychology and biology of human morality. One research program that has recently gained attention is […]
Tatsuya Kameda: Hokkaido University Department of Behavioral ScienceFeeling and expressing emotions appropriately in the right context is an essential component of social behavior. It has been suggested that emotional functioning […]
Peter DeScioli: Chapman University, Economic Science InstituteExploration of the cognitive systems underlying human friendship will be advanced by identifying the biological functions these systems perform. Here I propose that human […]
Caleb Finch: USC Davis School of GerontologyHuman lifespans have increased remarkably from the 20 year life expectancy (LE) of the great apes. The normative 40 y LE of pre-industrial peoples […]
Karthik Panchanathan: UCLA Department of AnthropologyBehavioral economics studies have shown people to have other-regarding social preferences. In the Dictator Game, for example, dictators transfer some portion of their endowment to […]
James Fowler: UCSD Political Science DepartmentSocial networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. While genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in […]
Nathan Bailey: UC Riverside Department of BiologySame-sex mating behavior has been extensively documented in non-human animals, but we still know relatively little about its evolutionary impact. What evidence exists that […]
Robert Boyd: UCLA Department of AnthropologyIn this talk I explain how culturally heritable differences in wealth between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning […]
David Sloan Wilson: SUNY Binghamton Department of Biological Sciences & Department of AnthropologyEvolutionary theory is rapidly expanding beyond the biological sciences to include all human-related subjects in academia. Since evolution […]
Daniel Nettle: Newcastle University Centre for Behaviour and EvolutionEven in the most developed countries, many people do not accept the theory of evolution as true. Whilst there are cultural and […]
