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  • January 2017

  • 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

  • Mon 27
    February 27, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Kim Hill – The evolution of human uniqueness

    Kim Hill: Arizona State University

  • March 2017

  • Mon 6
    March 6, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Adam Sparks – Who takes risks, and why?

    Adam Sparks: UCLAWho takes risks, and why? Does risk-taking in one context predict risk-taking in other contexts? Attempting to answer these questions, I present a general conceptual model of decision-making […]

  • Mon 13
    March 13, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Marco Del Giudice – A unifying framework for evolutionary psychopathology

    Marco Del Giudice: University of New MexicoEvolutionary approaches to psychopathology have generated many innovative models of specific mental disorders, as well as a growing empirical literature. However, the field as […]

  • April 2017

  • Mon 3
    April 3, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Jeffrey Schank – The Evolution of Fairness

    Jeffrey Schank: UC DavisThere are many theoretical approaches to explaining fairness, but explaining fairness without leverage (e.g., genetic relatedness, punishment, or retaliation) is especially challenging. The dictator game (DG) is […]

  • Sun 16
    April 16, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Ketema Paul – The Ability to Recover from Sleep Loss is Regulated by Biological Clocks in Skeletal Muscle Tissue

    Ketema Paul: University of California, Los AngelesSleep loss can severely impair cognitive performance, yet the ability to recover from sleep loss is not well understood. Sleep regulatory mechanisms are assumed […]

  • Mon 24
    April 24, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Chris Dunkel Schetter – Stress and Anxiety in Pregnancy: Consequences and Mechanisms for Birth and Beyond

    Chris Dunkel Schetter: University of California, Los AngelesIn this talk, Prof Dunkel Schetter will touch on conceptions of stress, background on birth outcomes, and summarize briefly findings on stress and […]

  • May 2017

  • Mon 1
    May 1, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Cristine H. Legare – The Evolution and Ontogeny of Cultural Learning

    Cristine H. Legare: University of Texas at AustinHumans display a wide repertoire of socially acquired and transmitted behaviors that vary substantially across populations. Information is accumulated and transferred within and […]

  • Tue 2
    May 2, 2017 @ 12:00 am

    Kevin Langergraber – Group Augmentation, Collective Action, and Territorial Boundary Patrolling by Male Chimpanzees

    Kevin Langergraber: Arizona State UniversityMany animals carry out activities together because the benefits derived from collective action exceed those that can be achieved individually. But how can collective action evolve […]

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