Janet Sinsheimer: UCLA Departments of Human Genetics, Biomathematics and BiostatisticsBiological mechanisms involving a combination of genetic and environmental factors have been hypothesized to explain susceptibility to complex familial disease. I will present our efforts to detect interactions between mother's and child's genes that may create adverse prenatal environments and increase susceptibility to diseases such as […]

Carl Lipo: CSU Long Beach Department of AnthropologyThe monumental statues (moai) of Easter Island represent substantial investment in cultural elaboration by the prehistoric islanders. Constructing explanations of these features requires generating measurements of temporal and spatial statue variability. Using a method based in cultural transmission, cladistics and occurrence seriation I present the results of analysis […]

Stacey Rucas: California Polytechnic State University Department of Social SciencesThis research examines the complexity of women's social behaviors with other women through various modes of evolutionary inquiry and methods. Results indicate that women engage in alternating forms of competitive and cooperative behaviors across the lifecourse in their quest for reproductively limiting resources. Data presented will […]