Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell: Stanford University Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryThe structure of African elephant society is primarily matriarchal in nature, where dominant female elephants make decisions for the herd as a whole with regard to safety, movements, resource choices and affiliations. Culture is often influenced by local environmental and social pressures, as well as […]
Hillard Kaplan: University of New Mexico Department of AnthropologyThis paper will present an overview of age-specific mortality rates among hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturalists. It will also present new data on resource transfers and physical rates of aging among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists in Bolivia. It will be argued that the balance of costs and benefits of maintenance and […]
Paul Griffiths: University of Queensland Department of PhilosophyMany evolutionary processes have been described in which a trait that initially develops in the members of a population as a result of some interaction with the environment comes to develop without that interaction in their descendants. Waddington’s genetic assimilation is importantly different from the rest of this […]
