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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Michael Alvard: Texas A&M University Department of AnthropologyThe human ability to form large, coordinated groups is among our most impressive social adaptation. Larger groups facilitate synergistic economies of scale for […]
Dominic Johnson: University of Edinburgh Reader in Politics & International RelationsA recent explosion of work suggests a key role for human physiology and evolutionary psychology in understanding political behaviour, from […]
Parry Clarke: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyClassic sexual selection theory, exemplified by the work of Bateman and Trivers, has played and continues to play a central role in the study […]
