Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications Daniel L. Bowling Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Center for […]
Incentivized punishers and moralistic offenders destabilize cooperation Tage Rai Assistant Professor Rady School of Management University of California, San Diego Punishment is classically theorized to be essential for the evolution […]
An evolutionary-physiological model of human energy management and the emergence of novel non-communicable diseases Hillard Kaplan Professor, Anthropology, University of New Mexico Research Affiliate, Economic Science Institute, Chapman University This […]
Generic generalizations within and across contexts Ny Vasil Assistant Professor Psychology Department, California State University East Bay Generic generalizations about natural and social kinds (e.g., “Raccoons have rabies”; “Trader Joe’s […]
May the Fiber Be with You: Gut Microbiomes from a remote Amazon village to the undergraduate lab Katrine Whiteson University of California Irvine School of Biological Sciences, co-Director, UCI Microbiome Center Bacterial and […]
How infants learn to eat plants (and why they may not want to) Annie E. Wertz Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara Life is mostly […]
Roadside primates: Balancing risks and rewards in anthropogenic environments Erin Riley Professor, Anthropology, San Diego State University In the contemporary era it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a primate […]
Unlike humans, who can maintain relationships and communities beyond temporal and spatial boundaries, nonhuman primates’ relationships are fundamentally grounded in embodied, immediate interactions. In this talk, I present two empirical […]
Early life experiences are widely thought to shape adult behavior, health, and fitness across the tree of life. The deep evolutionary roots of these "early life effects"—seen in organisms ranging […]
This talk will attempt to answer three questions: 1) Do plants communicate about their risk of herbivory? 2) Do plants have individual personalities with respect to communication? 3) Why does […]
