Noa Pinter-Wollman: UCLAMany biological systems are aggregates of individuals working synergistically to achieve collective goals. In social insects, evolution acts on variation in the emergent collective behaviors of the colony. Variation among colonies in collective behavior can result from differences in their composition and/or from differences in the environments in which they reside. To understand […]
Ian C. Gilby: Arizona State UniversityIn order to understand the causes and consequences of the significant increase in meat consumption in hominins, we must first make inferences about the behavior of the last common ancestor (LCA) of apes and humans. Chimpanzees, which regularly hunt vertebrates, are a valuable point of reference for understanding the possible […]
Dan Conroy-Beam: UC Santa BarbaraHuman mating research is largely motivated by an assumption that mate choice is guided by mate preferences. But the field knows little about the psychology responsible for translating preferences into downstream outcomes. Stated differently, what do mate preferences do and how do they do it? I present data from a series […]
