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James Liu – Collective Remembering across Generations and across Cultures: Evidence for National Narrative Templates, Developmental Variants, and Global Anchors

James Liu: Massey University, New ZealandWhat is universal, what is characteristic of national political culture, and what is regionally influenced in the “living memory” of national history for people around the world? Selected data a reported from a massive multi-generational adult sample (N>27000) collected online in 2018-19, representative of 42 societies around the world). In […]

Brian Wood – Hadza hunter-gatherer movement ecology and the sexual division of labor

Brian Wood: University of California, Los AngelesHumans think about, explore, and use landscapes like no other species, reflecting our unique biological and cultural adaptations. One of these adaptations, observed in all hunter-gatherer societies, is a gendered division of foraging labor. The impacts that gendered economic roles have upon space use is a critical concern for […]

Lee Gettler – The biology of fatherhood in context: Evolutionary origins, cross-cultural perspectives, and implications for men’s health

Lee Gettler: University of Notre DameHuman males have a flexible psychobiological capacity to respond to committed parenting with shifts in hormones such as testosterone, prolactin, and oxytocin. These findings hint at evolved neuroendocrine capacities that help facilitate refocused priorities as men make the transition into fatherhood. Evolutionarily, these capacities likely emerged alongside humans’ “slow” life […]