Renee Hagen, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA https://reneehagen.com/ Title: Common behaviors and moral codes: Applying cultural evolution and sexual conflict theory to model the dynamics of social norms Abstract: How do new social norms spread in social groups, and how are norms maintained or change over time?  I will present two studies that investigate these questions […]

Dr. John Bunce & Dr. Caissa Revilla Minaya, Culture, Environment and Health Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/projects-and-research-groups/culture-environment-and-health-research-group/ Title: Cultural dynamics in an Indigenous Amazonian population: An exploration of intra- and inter-ethnic causal mechanisms  Abstract: For several decades, evolutionary social science theorists have devoted considerable attention to exploring various mechanisms that influence […]

Kristine Chua, Postdoctoral Scholar, Integrative Anthropological Sciences, UCSB This talk will be presented live as well as via Zoom. Title: Using Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives in the Study of Human Pregnancy in Diverse Communities  Abstract: Models of the social determinants of health have proliferated in recent years across multiple disciplines. Yet, this surge in the literature […]