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 […]
Patricia Gowaty: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BehaviorDo genes for choosy females and indiscriminate mates determine typical sex roles; or, do ecological and social constraints determine sex roles? Or […]
Rebecca Bliege Bird: Stanford University Department of AnthropologyAnthropologists commonly invoke an "economy of scale" to explain gender differences in hunter-gatherer subsistence and economic production: wives pursue childcare-compatible tasks and husbands, […]
Roberto Delgado: USC Department of AnthropologyInitial field observations and reports from a few short-term studies pointed to island differences between Bornean and Sumatran orangutans in their general appearance and behavioral […]
Joseph Henrich: University of British Columbia Departments of Psychology and EconomicsThis talk will first develop an evolutionarily-informed, cognitively-grounded approach to culture, and then apply this approach to explain patterns of […]
Naomi Eisenberger: UCLA Department of PsychologyNumerous languages characterize ‘social pain,’ the feelings resulting from social rejection or loss, with words typically reserved for describing physical pain (“broken hearts,†“hurt feelingsâ€) […]
