Edward Slingerland: University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied CognitionCalls to "vertically integrate" (Tooby & Cosmides) or achieve "consilience" (E.O. Wilson) […]
Eric Alden Smith: University of Washington Department of AnthropologyCollective action with low relatedness (large-n, low-r cooperation) is a common feature of human societies, in marked contrast to patterns in other […]
Doug Kenrick: Arizona State University Department of PsychologyThe human mind processes information in a famously selective and shockingly biased way. Who and what do we select for attention, encoding, and […]
Elizabeth Pillsworth: CSU Fullerton Department of AnthropologyDarwin's theory of sexual selection emphasizes the role of female mate choice in shaping male morphology and behavior. In evolutionary psychology, the model of […]
Carlos Navarrete: Michigan State University Department of Psychology & Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior ProgramIntergroup aggression perpetrated by men has been a persistent feature of human societies for centuries, and may […]
Quentin Atkinson: University of Oxford Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary AnthropologyLanguages, like species, evolve. Words and phrases compete for our favour in a struggle for existence that is analogous to […]
Aaron Blackwell: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThe Shuar are a large and semi-autonomous indigenous group from the Amazonas region of Ecuador. Most Shuar subsist on a mixture of foraging and horticulture, […]
Uri Gneezy: UCSD Rady School of Management Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Management Leadership, Professor of Management and StrategyIn this talk I will discuss some recent findings regarding gender differences […]
Erol Akcay: University of Tennessee National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)There is extensive work on the evolutionary causes of social behaviors, but integration of this theory with the […]
Thomas Flamson: Santa Monica College Department of Earth Science / UCLA Department of AnthropologyThe Encryption Theory of Humor proposes that humor evolved as a means of signaling similarity in locally […]
