Heather Watts: LMUPatterns of survival and reproduction are known to be influenced by prevailing environmental conditions. In this talk, I will draw from my research on gregarious mammals and birds […]
Nga Nguyen: CSU FullertonMaternal care is the most significant measure of successful adaptation among female mammals. Understanding the predictors of individual differences in offspring care is a major objective of […]
Anne Kandler: Santa Fe Institute‘Language shift’ is the process whereby members of a community in which more than one language is spoken abandon their original vernacular language in favour of […]
Rebecca Sear: London School of EconomicsThe question of why people have the number of children that they do has still not been fully answered, despite decades of research on this […]
Steve Cole: UCLA School of MedicineRelationships between genes and social behavior have historically been viewed as a one-way street, with genes in control. Recent analyses have challenged this view by […]
Martie Haselton: UCLA
Sharlene E. Santana: UCLAThe rich morphological diversity of mammal faces has captured the attention of naturalists for over a century. Researchers have long proposed that social behaviors have primarily shaped […]
Mike Gurven: UCSBPersonality traits (i.e. behavioral syndrome or disposition) have now been documented in a large number of species, and account for substantial behavioral variation among individuals. How heritable variation […]
Bernard Chapais: University of MontrealThe social structure of any species is an emergent biological phenomenon and as such it has an evolutionary history. The human social structure is no exception […]
Laura Fortunato: SFICompared to other species, humans show a remarkable degree of variation in family organization. This talk presents recent advances in the application of evolutionary thinking to the study […]
