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October 2016

Mon 17
October 17, 2016 @ 12:00 am

David Lawson – Is polygynous marriage a harmful cultural practice?

David Lawson: University of California, Santa BarbaraRecent years have witnessed a widening commitment to achieving gender equality at a global scale, with corresponding, and often controversial, shifts in international and […]

Mon 31
October 31, 2016 @ 12:00 am

Andrew Whalen – Integrating Social Learning Into Models of Reinforcement Learning

Andrew Whalen: University of EdinburghSocial learning and asocial learning are sometimes seen as two conflicting ways in which individuals make decisions and learn about the world around them. Increasingly research […]

November 2016

Mon 7
November 7, 2016 @ 12:00 am

Barney Schlinger – Sexual Selection for Grace, Speed, Strength and, Oh Yes, Noise!

Barney Schlinger: UCLAManakins are a clade of extraordinary neotropical birds. In many species, the brightly–colored males are polygynous, performing no parental care duties, but they gather into leks for courtship. […]

Mon 14
November 14, 2016 @ 12:00 am

Dan Conroy-Beam – A Multidimensional Approach to Human Mate Selection

Dan Conroy-Beam: UC Santa BarbaraHuman mating research is largely motivated by an assumption that mate choice is guided by mate preferences. But the field knows little about the psychology responsible […]

Mon 21
November 21, 2016 @ 12:00 am

Ian C. Gilby – Pan the hunter: Chimpanzee predation and human evolution

Ian C. Gilby: Arizona State UniversityIn order to understand the causes and consequences of the significant increase in meat consumption in hominins, we must first make inferences about the behavior […]

Mon 28
November 28, 2016 @ 12:00 am

Noa Pinter-Wollman – Individual Variation in Collective Behavior

Noa Pinter-Wollman: UCLAMany biological systems are aggregates of individuals working synergistically to achieve collective goals. In social insects, evolution acts on variation in the emergent collective behaviors of the colony. […]

January 2017

Mon 9
January 9, 2017 @ 12:00 am

Patty Gowaty – Standing on Darwin’s Shoulders: Sexual Selection and Bateman’s Principles

Patty Gowaty:

Mon 16
January 16, 2017 @ 12:00 am

Catherine Salmon – Evolutionary Perspectives on Anorexic Behavior: Ancestral Mechanisms in the Modern World UCLABEC

Catherine Salmon: University of RedlandsA compelling puzzle of our modern world is the disturbing obsession of some women with body image and dieting. Why do so many women in North […]

Mon 30
January 30, 2017 @ 12:00 am

Eric Schniter – The Long Life of Skill Development among Tsimane Forager Horticulturalists

Eric Schniter: UC Santa BarbaraCollaborative research from the Tsimane Health and Life History Project has investigated whether age profiles of Tsimane skill development are consistent with life history theory predictions […]

February 2017

Mon 6
February 6, 2017 @ 12:00 am

Doug Jones – Kinship thinking as core cognition

Doug Jones: University of Utah

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