David Liu: UCSD Department of PsychologyMuch research and debate around theory of mind (the ability to attribute mental states to actions) have revolved around whether X have a theory of mind. X might be 3-year-olds, infants, children with autism, chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, and so forth. I will argue that the better question is what aspects […]
John Novembre: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Interdepartmental Program in BioinformaticsNovel technological developments are providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the geographic distribution of human genomic diversity. This information has been leveraged to study population structure and interrogate signatures of natural selection. In this talk I will review emerging results from geographic […]
Katerina Semendeferi: UCSD Department of AnthropologyThe organ of the mind, the brain, is the focus of several fields of study. This lecture will address the role of neuroanatomy in reconstructions of cognitive evolution. It will present new data on the internal organization of the brain of humans and great apes and will revisit, in a […]
