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SUMMARY:Frank Marlowe Memorial Lecturer: Mike Gurven\, Anthropology\, UCSB. Title: A Natural History of Human Longevity.
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe evolution of human longevity still remains a curious puzzle. Here I provide some new perspectives on the why and how of longevity over the course of human evolution\, relying on the anthropological study of subsistence societies as an imperfect lens for gaining insight. I argue that our evolved human lifespan is about seven decades\, and that the multifaceted contributions of middle-to-older aged adults is part of the reason why. I combine ethnographic\, demographic and biomedical studies to shed light on the timing and significance of the transition from “asset” to “burden” in late adulthood\, with implications for navigating the global Gray Wave of population aging. \nZoom link: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94308730584?pwd=0YGsaJFEdLd5cMsOhTh465nwJubz9o.1 \nMeeting ID: 943 0873 0584\nPasscode: 308291
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/frank-marlowe-memorial-lecturer-mike-gurven-anthropology-ucsb/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T120000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Tingley\, EEB\, UCLA: "To move\, or not to move? How species respond to a warming climate"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: When we contemplate how biodiversity is changing\, we often focus on the species we have lost entirely. But while we have yet to lose a single bird species to our rapidly changing climate\, birds and other creatures are currently adapting and responding in myriad ways. Across the world\, species are shifting their geographic distributions\, shifting the timing of life history events\, and even shifting their body shapes and sizes. Integrating field research and citizen science over decades to centuries\, the research presented in this talk demonstrates the complex ways that species are responding to a changing climate\, as well as the options that humans have to help species cope with an increasingly dynamic earth system. \nZoom link: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94308730584?pwd=0YGsaJFEdLd5cMsOhTh465nwJubz9o.1 \nMeeting ID: 943 0873 0584\nPasscode: 308291
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/morgan-tingley-eeb-ucla-to-move-or-not-to-move-how-species-respond-to-a-warming-climate/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T120000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Kim Zhu: Multi-Omic Investigations of Convergent Human Adaptations to High-Altitude Hypoxia in the Himalayas and Andes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: A long-standing goal within the field of evolutionary genomics has been to understand how genomic and phenotypic differences between human populations arise. High-altitude environments offer a natural experiment to study this question\, as these environments impose a number of selective pressures\, the most severe of which is high-altitude hypoxia. Human populations residing across the Andean Altiplano\, Tibetan Plateau\, and Ethiopian Highlands represent three separate replications of this natural experiment\, each displaying a unique suite of high-altitude adaptive phenotypes. This talk explores how multi-omic methods can be leveraged to uncover signatures of natural selection and developmental adaptation that have shaped the adaptive phenotypes displayed among high-altitude residing Andean and Himalayan populations. Ultimately\, this work highlights how adaptive processes can act across evolutionary and developmental timescales to shape the shared and distinguishing features observed between human populations. \nZoom link: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94308730584?pwd=0YGsaJFEdLd5cMsOhTh465nwJubz9o.1\nMeeting ID: 943 0873 0584\nPasscode: 308291
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SUMMARY:Ashley Mensing\, Dept of Anthropology\, UCLA. Title: Early life adversity and life history correlates in wild white-faced capuchins: physiological mechanisms and fitness outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nOrganisms that develop under adversity often differ from their peers in stress physiology\, behavior\, and reproductive timing. Life history frameworks offer a powerful lens for making sense of this variation\, proposing that these differences reflect developmental responses calibrated to early environmental conditions. Yet the mechanistic pathway connecting early adversity to physiological changes to behavioral shifts to life history outcomes has rarely been traced empirically within wild populations\, leaving core assumptions about how this process unfolds largely untested. \nI draw on long-term data from the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in Costa Rica to examine whether early adversity in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator) generates the downstream physiological\, behavioral\, and life history changes that these frameworks anticipate. I first characterize early environmental harshness and its relationship to stress physiology\, then ask whether physiological variation connects to behavioral and life history shifts in the expected directions. By tracing this pathway empirically in a wild primate\, this work offers a window into how and whether the predictions embedded in life history approaches hold when tested mechanistically in a system with rich longitudinal data. These findings have implications for how we study developmental plasticity and the promises and limitations of applying life history frameworks to individual-level developmental trajectories. \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94308730584?pwd=0YGsaJFEdLd5cMsOhTh465nwJubz9o.1\nMeeting ID: 943 0873 0584\nPasscode: 308291
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/tba-2/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T120000
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SUMMARY:Arnon Lotem\, Visiting Professor UCLA\, Title: Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the evolution of advanced cognition requires explaining how it could have gradually evolved through selection acting on heritable variations in simpler cognitive mechanisms. Making use of a previously proposed theory\, I will explain how the evolution of cognitive abilities can be captured by the fine-tuning of basic learning and chunking mechanisms. Specifically\, I will demonstrate how the process by which elements are combined into chunks and associated with other chunks\, or elements\, may be critical for what the brain can do\, and that it must be fine-tuned to ecological conditions in order to produce adaptive behaviors.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/arnon-lotem-visiting-professor-ucla-title-evolution-of-diverse-and-advanced-cognitive-abilities-through-adaptive-fine-tuning-of-learning-and-chunking-mechanisms/
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SUMMARY:Kristopher Smith\, Washington State University\, Title: Long-distance friends and collective action in fisheries management
DESCRIPTION:The management of shared natural resources often hinges on local cooperation\, yet the social networks linking communities across space can both complicate and enable collective action. This talk examines how long-distance friendships—relationships that bridge community boundaries—shape trust\, cooperation\, and participation in fisheries management in coastal Tanzania. Drawing on theoretical models and multi-site ethnographic and survey data from the Tanga Sociality and Fisheries Project\, I show that long-distance friendships provide key forms of material support similar to local friendships\, suggesting they are a resilient social strategy for managing ecological and economic risk while fostering interdependence across villages. In turn\, people with more long-distance friends express greater trust in non-local partners and are more likely to engage in collective monitoring and reporting of destructive fishing practices. Finally\, I introduce a new measure\, “long-distance orientation\,” capturing individual variation in the motivation and capacity to form and sustain these ties\, highlighting psychological and structural factors that facilitate cooperation at a distance. Together\, these findings suggest that long-distance relationships can serve as a foundation for scaling up collective action and designing management systems that bridge community boundaries.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/kristopher-smith-washington-state-university-title-long-distance-friends-and-collective-action-in-fisheries-management/
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