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€) […]
Barbara König: University of Zurich Institute of ZoologyIn addition to sexual selection, selection resulting from social interactions in contexts other than mating can be a potent evolutionary force. Such social […]
Edouard Machery: University of Pittsburgh Department of History and Philosophy of ScienceThat morality evolved is a commonplace among evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and anthropologists. In this talk, I will however argue […]
Jenessa Shapiro: UCLA Department of PsychologyConformity to a perceived norm is a common strategy used to gain the approval of one's interaction partners. Identifying a group norm is ordinarily relatively […]
Paul Mellars: University of Cambridge Department of ArchaeologyResearch over the past ten years in both DNA studies and archaeology has provided some remarkable new insights into the origins of biologically […]
Scott Johnson: UCLA Department of PsychologyMental rotation (MR) is the process by which people imagine how an object would look when rotated into a different orientation in space; it may […]
