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  • March 2010

  • Mon 29
    March 29, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    P. Jeffrey Brantingham – Burglars, Bangers and Bombers: The Behavioral Mechanisms Underlying Repeat Victimization

    P. Jeffrey Brantingham: UCLA Department of AnthropologyIt is well known that victims of both violent and property crime experience an increased risk of being victimized again, especially during a brief […]

  • April 2010

  • Mon 5
    April 5, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Peter Gray – The Descent of Dad’s Sexuality

    Peter Gray: University of Nevada-Las Vegas Department of AnthropologyHow does fatherhood impact men's sexuality? In this presentation, we review some of the core facets of paternal sexuality. Cross-cultural patterns of […]

  • Mon 12
    April 12, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Tom Griffiths – Effects of Inductive Biases on Cultural Transmission

    Tom Griffiths: UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and Group Major in Cognitive ScienceLearning a language, a concept, or a social norm all require making an inductive inference, going beyond the […]

  • Mon 19
    April 19, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Justin Wood – The Evolutionary Origins of Action Comprehension

    Justin Wood: USC Department of PsychologyAs social creatures, we wake up every morning to a dizzying array of actions from allies and competitors, in contexts that include cooperation, resource competition […]

  • Mon 26
    April 26, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Dario Maestripieri – Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection and Female Mating Vocalizations in Primates

    Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago Professor of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, Neurobiology, and PsychiatryPost-copulatory sexual selection operates through two main mechanisms: sperm competition and post-copulatory female choice. Little is […]

  • May 2010

  • Mon 3
    May 3, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Edward Slingerland – Why do Humanists Hate Vertical Integration?

    Edward Slingerland: University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied CognitionCalls to "vertically integrate" (Tooby & Cosmides) or achieve "consilience" (E.O. Wilson) […]

  • Mon 10
    May 10, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    Eric Alden Smith – Large-Scale Cooperation in Small-Scale Societies

    Eric Alden Smith: University of Washington Department of AnthropologyCollective action with low relatedness (large-n, low-r cooperation) is a common feature of human societies, in marked contrast to patterns in other […]

  • 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 […]

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