Ben Trumble: UCSBIn February 2014, catastrophic flooding impacted the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. Flooding decimated the subsistence lifestyle and more than two-thirds of villages were flooded (completely destroying crops and washing away most possessions); thousands fled to the nearby market town of San Borja. Widespread food insecurity and disease followed. This project examines the […]
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Eduardo Fernandez-Duque: Yale UniversityI will discuss published and new data from a population of monogamous owl monkeys in the Argentinean Chaco that we have been studying for almost 20 years to examine the hypothesis that social monogamy is a default social system imposed upon males because the spatial and/or temporal distribution of resources and females […] |
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John Tooby: UCSBDon’t shoot! Rodney King. Remember the Maine. The Reichstag Fire. Guernica. The War of Jenkins Ear. The murder of Emmet Till. Events in which one or more members of one group injure the welfare of one or more members of another group (“outrages”) typically provoke extraordinarily strong and frequently violent responses directed more […] |
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Robert Provine: University of MarylandAfter an introduction to the nature and use of laughter in daily life, discussion turns to the evolution of laughter and its implications for the emergence of speech. Contrasts between human and chimpanzee laughter reveal that laughter is the ritualized signal of labored breathing of rough-and-tumble, with the vocalization representing the […] |
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