Name: Daniel M.T. Fessler – The Importance of Attending to Phylogenetic Derivation in the Study of the Mind Or Why Emotions are Kludgy Or Some Gross Conclusions from the Study of Grossness
Start: 2011-04-25T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2011-04-25T00:00:00-07:00

February 2011
February 14, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Brian Wood – Household and Kin Provisioning by Hadza Males

Brian Wood: Stanford Department of AnthropologyIn this research, we use newly collected data describing how Hadza men’s foods were produced, shared, and consumed in order to elucidate the general motivations […]
February 25, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Ádám Miklósi – Dog-human social interaction: Old wine in new bottles?

Ádám Miklósi: Eötvös University Department of EthologyFor longer than we can remember dogs and humans have been friends. While both humanity and dogs benefited from this relationship, science has not […]
February 28, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Sarah Mesnick – Sperm whale social structure: kith and kin. Implications for behavior, culture and conservation

Sarah Mesnick: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceKnowledge of the genetic structure of social groupings provides the basis for understanding the relative influences of kin selection and reciprocity in […]
March 2011
March 7, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Ivy Pike – Embodying Violence and the Biocultural Approach: What can nomadic herders from Northern Kenya teach us about linking context to global health disparities?

Ivy Pike: University of Arizona Department of AnthropologyGrowing efforts to carefully link social environments to biological experiences have emerged in many disciplines; Anthropology is no exception. This integrative perspective aims […]
March 9, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Michael McCullough – Cognitive Systems for Revenge and Reconciliation

Michael McCullough: University of Miami Department of PsychologyExploitation—the targeted infliction of fitness costs on another organism for the purpose of capturing benefits for the self—is a fact of life for […]
March 28, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Edward H. Hagen – Drugs are bad…for pathogens. Testing an alternative to the

Edward H. Hagen: Washington State University Vancouver Department of AnthropologyCurrent neurobiological theory of recreational drug use is based on the observation that all addictive drugs induce changes in activity of […]
April 2011
April 4, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Christopher von Rueden – Why do men seek positions of status or leadership?

Christopher von Rueden: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThe relationship between social status and reproductive success in small-scale societies can provide insight into how natural selection may have acted on status-seeking behavior […]
April 11, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Andrew Delton – Welfare Tradeoffs: Computation, Reciprocity, and Social Emotions

Andrew Delton: UCSB Department of Psychology and Center for Evolutionary PsychologyMembers of social species routinely make decisions that involve welfare allocations—decisions that impact the welfare of two or more parties. […]
April 18, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Polly Wiessner – Cycles of War among the Enga of Papua New Guinea: Youths, Elders and Indoctrinability.

Polly Wiessner: University of Utah Department of AnthropologyIndoctrinability, the capacity to be inculcated with values or doctrines and to accept them uncritically, poses an evolutionary puzzle because it can lead […]
April 25, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Daniel M.T. Fessler – The Importance of Attending to Phylogenetic Derivation in the Study of the Mind Or Why Emotions are Kludgy Or Some Gross Conclusions from the Study of Grossness

Daniel M.T. Fessler: UCLA Department of AnthropologyThe evolutionary study of mind and behavior has benefited enormously from the functionality heuristic, i.e., the assumption that mental mechanisms can usefully be understood […]

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