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  • May 2010

  • Wed 12
    May 12, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Doug Kenrick – How the Mind Warps: Evolution and Social Cognition

    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 […]

  • Mon 17
    May 17, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Elizabeth Pillsworth – Is Female Choice Overemphasized in the Evolutionary Psychology of Human Mating? Evidence from the Shuar of Ecuador

    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 […]

  • Mon 24
    May 24, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Carlos Navarrete – Sexual Selection and the Psychological Architecture of Race Prejudice

    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 […]

  • June 2010

  • Tue 1
    June 1, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Quentin Atkinson – The Cultural Evolution of Human Languages

    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 […]

  • September 2010

  • Mon 27
    September 27, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Aaron Blackwell – Life history, immune function, and helminths: The behavioral and immunological ecology of the Shuar of Ecuador

    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, […]

  • October 2010

  • Mon 4
    October 4, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Uri Gneezy – Gender differences in preferences

    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 […]

  • Mon 11
    October 11, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Erol Akcay – Evolution of motivations and behavioral responses: Integrating the proximate and ultimate causes of behavior

    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 […]

  • Mon 18
    October 18, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Thomas Flamson – Encryption Theory: The evolution of humor as an honest signal

    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 […]

  • Mon 25
    October 25, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Robert Wayne – Evolution and diversification of the domestic dog

    Robert Wayne: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyThe domestic dog is one of our most remarkable inventions. The behavioral and functional diversity of the dog far surpasses that of […]

  • November 2010

  • Mon 1
    November 1, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    James Holland Jones – Contact Networks, Models of Infectious Disease, and Epidemic Simulation

    James Holland Jones: Stanford University Department of AnthropologyInteraction networks shaped by social processes constitute the substrate on which various phenomena of interest to evolutionary anthropologists and human biologists occur. Examples […]

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