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SUMMARY:Marina Davila-Ross:  Laughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication in Hominids
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marina Davila-Ross\, Reader in Comparative Psychology\, University of Portsmouth \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom. \nLaughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication in Hominids \nAbstract: Laughter and smiles are arguably the strongest behavioural indicators of positive emotional states in humans and they also represent pervasive tools of social communication\, help to develop and maintain social relationships\, and affect individuals‘ health and wellbeing. It\, thus\, may not come to a surprise that these important behaviours are deeply rooted in human biology. More specifically\, empirical research on hominids suggests that laughter and smiles are evolutionarily continuous\, going back to at least the past 13 million years. As a result\, an in-depth evaluation of laughter and smiles in great apes may provide a better understanding of why humans\, a highly social-cognitive species\, behave the way they do. This talk attempts to reconstruct the evolution of laughter and smiles in great apes and humans by assessing form and function of these expressions in their natural social interactions. Comparative and phylogenetic approaches are applied that include acoustic analyses\, FACS (Facial Action Coding System) specifically designed to study great apes\, and the coding of bodily actions. \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94813693836?pwd=ZWx5Tnl5UStac0RSZUZCSlFyMTl2UT09 \nZoom Meeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
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SUMMARY:Amanda Lea: Lifestyle change and  health in the Turkana of northwest Kenya
DESCRIPTION:Dr Amanda Lea\, Department of Biological Sciences\, Vanderbilt University \nhttp://lea-lab.org/index.html \nTitle: Lifestyle change and health in the Turkana of northwest Kenya \nAbstract: The environments experienced by individuals living “modern”\, “urban”\, or “Western” lifestyles are deeply diverged from the ancestral selection pressures that have shaped human genomes through evolutionary time. Consequently\, many have hypothesized that this “mismatch” —between evolved human phenotypes and modern life—is responsible for increasing rates of non-communicable diseases worldwide. However\, despite the popularity and intuitive appeal of this idea\, it has been difficult to test in practice. In particular\, we lack direct evidence that health issues emerge when populations adapted to subsistence-level practices encounter modern\, urban environments. Further\, we lack an understanding of how the many factors that change during urban transitions\, including physical activity\, diet\, early life conditions\, and the social environment\, interact to ultimately impact health. My research aims to address these gaps\, by working with the Turkana people of Northwest Kenya who are currently transitioning from a traditional\, pastoralist lifestyle to an urban\, market-integrated lifestyle. Using genomic\, transcriptomic\, anthropological\, and biomedical data collected from across this lifestyle gradient\, my work centers on understanding 1) how the Turkana have adapted through evolutionary time to their pastoralist lifestyle\, 2) the degree to which physiology and health are altered when individuals from this locally adapted genetic background move to cities\, and 3) how early life experiences\, social environmental conditions\, diet\, and other key factors contribute to lifestyle effects on health. Together\, this work aims to bring attention to non-communicable disease emergence in transitioning societies\, and to more generally shed new light on our evolutionary interpretation of environmentally-induced disease. \nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92826436236?pwd=SytQNTNPSWdwaDNlTm05d2srdXNHUT09 \nMeeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/amanda-lea-lifestyle-change-and-health-in-the-turkana-of-northwest-kenya/
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SUMMARY:Asher Rosinger\, title: Water needs\, water insecurity\, and nutritional adaptations: The intersecting pathways to human biology
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Asher Rosinger \nDepartment of Biobehavioral Health\, Penn State \nhttps://hhd.psu.edu/contact/asher-rosinger \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom. \nAbstract: Dr. Asher Rosinger will discuss one of humanity’s oldest and increasingly important questions\, how do populations meet their water needs in areas with water problems and how do these strategies affect health and well-being. This talk will discuss how physical and nutritional environments shape variation in human water needs including in early life\, how experiences with water become embodied in health and disease patterns\, and how humans cope with these environmental stressors through their diets and behavior. It will feature work from the Bolivian Amazon\, Northern Kenya\, and the US. \nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92826436236?pwd=SytQNTNPSWdwaDNlTm05d2srdXNHUT09 \nMeeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
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