P.J. Lamberson: University of California, Los AngelesThe challenge of balancing between exploiting existing solutions and exploring for new ones spans problem domains from animals foraging for food to businesses searching […]
Jim Sidanius: Harvard UniversityUsing Social Dominance and evolutionary theory as theoretical frameworks, we argue for a model entitled the Theory of Gendered Prejudice (TGP), which in broad terms, suggests that […]
Elizabeth Chrastil: University of California, Santa BarbaraOrienting oneself in novel environments, as well as finding and remembering the locations of resources, is critical for human and animal existence. Despite the […]
Michael Rescorla: University of California, Los AngelesJust as the heart serves to pump blood and the stomach serves to digest food, one of the mind’s principal functions is to represent […]
Sarah Benson-Amram: University of WyomingAs urban centers all over the world have grown, biologists have struggled to explain why some species can invade and thrive despite human-induced environmental change whereas […]
Eduardo Guerra Amorim: University of California, Los AngelesDespite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. […]
Daniel Benyshek: University of Nevada Las VegasMaternal placentophagy, the mother’s consumption of the ‘afterbirth’ following parturition, is a ubiquitous behavior among terrestrial mammals – including non-human primates. Despite myriad hypothesized […]
Susan Schaffnit: University of California, Santa BarbaraA global campaign to end ‘child marriage’ (i.e. marriage before 18 years) has emerged over the last decade as part of growing international commitments to address […]
Jeremy Koster: University of Cincinnati, OhioHumans are distinguished from other hominoids by several life history traits, including prolonged childhoods, relatively brief inter-birth intervals, and extend post-reproductive lifespans. To explain the […]
Thomas J. H. Morgan: Arizona State UniversityThe evolution of human behavior and cognition is often studied with a combination of theory and experiment—theory is used to explore evolutionary dynamics, and […]
