Kristi Lewton: University of Southern CaliforniaLocomotion, gestation, and childbirth have had a significant impact on human culture and biology, including the morphology of the human hip. One of the most fundamental features of the human lineage is walking on two legs, and the emergence of this novel behavior had spectacular evolutionary consequences; the advent of […]
Kotrina Kajokaite: University of California, Los AngelesCoalitionary recruitment offers a window into animal social cognition. However, naturally observed coalitionary conflicts are challenging to analyze because the researcher has no control over the context in which they occurred, and observed behavior patterns are typically consistent with multiple explanations. In this talk, I will present analyses of […]
Courtney Meehan: Washington State University Throughout our evolutionary history, and in much of the world today, human infancy has been characterized by a host of ancestral traits which include frequent maternal-infant contact, on-demand breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and cooperative breeding. These ancestral characteristics have, in part, supported the development of our altricial infants and enabled reproductive success […]
