We humans come from a diverse order, the primates, which make excellent model systems for studying the interface between the biological and the social. In this talk, I focus on […]
Paleolithic archaeologists have employed expectations generated from models developed in evolutionary anthropology to aid in the investigation of the origins of high-fidelity cultural transmission. Based on the notion that copying […]
Given that animal-borne pathogens pose especially high disease risks and, moreover, that a growing body of research suggests that the evolved function of disgust is the avoidance of disease, it […]
Friends have recurrently provided social, material, and emotional support—helping humans meet a range of recurrent challenges tributary to fitness. But friendships are not the first type of relationship that comes […]
Groupishness is a tendency to commit prosocial acts for which the pathway to compensatory fitness benefits is unpredictable. It is unique to humans, and its evolution is not well understood. […]
For better or worse, humans are now one of the major causal forces acting on the earth’s biosphere. Many would point to technology as the reason, but what exactly is […]
This is a special BEC talk in honor of the retirement of one of BEC's core faculty members, Joe Manson. Please note the special time! Refreshments and snacks on the […]
Dr. Keolu Fox, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSD This speaker will be presenting in person. Indigenous Data Lifecycles for Indigenous Futures Abstract: According to The Economist, in 2018 oil was the […]
Dr. Martin Surbeck, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University This talk will be presented via Zoom. Aspects of competition and cooperation in the genus Pan. Abstract: I […]
Dr. Marina Davila-Ross, Reader in Comparative Psychology, University of Portsmouth This talk will be presented via Zoom. Laughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication […]
