Peter Nonacs: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyHamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness broadly states that whether or not a trait increases in frequency is dependent on both the direct […]
Mary K. Shenk: University of Missouri Department of AnthropologyEvolutionary anthropologists have given significant attention to the global phenomenon of the demographic transition, especially the remarkable decreases in fertility that characterize […]
Federico Rossano: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyIn this talk I address two crucial aspects of gestural communication in non-human primates: how gestures are acquired/developed and how similar is their […]
Charles Perreault: UCLA Department of AnthropologyHumans adaptive radiation has been explained by our capacity to socially learn information (culture). Culture is an inheritance system that parallels and interacts with the […]
Ralph Adolphs: Cal TechLike most other social neuroscience groups, my lab has been using pictures of faces as stimuli for a long time-- we investigate how people look at them, […]
Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn: UCLAIn Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War we used the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers to discover when people […]
Alyssa Crittenden: UNLVHuman prosociality is one of the defining characteristics of our species, yet the developmental origins of altruistic behavior remain little understood. The evolution of widespread food sharing in […]
Andrew Shtulman: OccidentalEvolution by natural selection is a theory that has unified the biological sciences but divided the general public. In this talk, I shall discuss how early-emerging, essentialist constraints […]
Derek Penn: UCLAHuman animals– and no other– build fires and wheels, diagnose each other’s illnesses, communicate using symbols, risk their lives for ideals, collaborate with others, explain the world in […]
Robin Nelson: UCRIn this talk, I will explore the extent to which variability in the quality of familial and social relationships is correlated to the phenotypic expression of biological indicators […]
