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  • September 2016

  • Mon 26
    September 26, 2016 @ 12:00 am

    Jessica Lynch Alfaro – Comparative Phylogenomics, Biogeography and Conservation of Neotropical Primates

    Jessica Lynch Alfaro: UCLANeotropical primates represent one of the most successful mammalian radiations in the Neotropics, and all living platyrrhine monkeys in Central and South America stem from a single […]

  • October 2016

  • Mon 3
    October 3, 2016 @ 12:00 am

    Gandhi Yetish – Sleep as an Evolved Behavior: Ecological Opportunity Costs and Sleep Optimization

    Gandhi Yetish: University of New MexicoShort sleep duration is associated with numerous, sometimes severe, negative health outcomes, and yet many people report regularly sleeping insufficiently. Part of the challenge in […]

  • Mon 10
    October 10, 2016 @ 12:00 am

    Michelle Brown – Choose Your Battles: Individual Motivations for Participation in Collective Aggression

    Michelle Brown: University of California, Santa BarbaraGroup?level competition has important effects on individual fitness and is thought to be a crucial force in the evolution of complex social systems. However, […]

  • 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

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