Past Presentations

Annie E. Wertz – How infants learn to eat plants (and why they may not want to)

Katrine Whiteson – May the Fiber Be with You: Gut Microbiomes from a remote Amazon village to the undergraduate lab

Hillard Kaplan – An evolutionary-physiological model of human energy management and the emergence of novel non-communicable diseases

Ny Vasil – Generic generalizations within and across contexts

Tage Rai – Incentivized punishers and moralistic offenders destabilize cooperation

Mike Frank – Bridging the data gap between children and AI models

Ryan Nichols – Lineage Fitness Theory and the Lineage Manipulation and Mutualism Mechanism: Bridging Evolutionary Social Sciences & Cultural Evolution

Justin Lund – Storytelling, sovereignty, and STEM

Daniel L. Bowling – Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications Rescheduled from 1/13/25

Nicholas Grebe – Snark Hunting and Non-Traditional Models for the Biology of Monogamy

David Pietraszewski – The evolutionary psychology of psychology

Cody Moser – Models of Collective Problem Solving: Bringing the Individual into Collective Intelligence

Irene Godoy – Kinship as constraint: Social aging in kin-structured groups

Andreas Wilke – The adaptivity of children’s search processes

Gary Brase – How to incite a scientific revolution: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration [Note special time and location]

Peter M. Todd – How people forage in space and mind

Kyle Wiley – Embodiment of Stress and Trauma in the Perinatal Period

Nelson Ting – Primate Extinction in the Anthropocene and the Tail of Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus

Marcia Inhorn – Motherhood on ice: The mating gap and why women freeze their eggs

Michael Greenfield – Rhythm coordination in animal species, including humans: Entrainment from bushcricket chorusing to the philharmonic orchestra

Kelsey Jorgensen – Surviving the heights: Environmental adaptations and multispecies genetics in the Andes

Jazlyn Mooney – On the Number of Genealogical Ancestors: Tracing to the Source Groups of an Admixed Population

David Reby – What can deer tell us about our voice? How sexual selection may have shaped human vocal diversity

Michael Campbell – The effect of population history on patterns of genetic diversity at the TAS2R bitter taste receptor genes in West Central and Central African populations

Eduardo Amorim – How Past Pandemics Shaped the Evolution of Human Immunity – Lessons from Ancient Genomes

Elsa Ordway – Insights from the tropics: a social-ecological systems approach to understanding climate change

Emily Lindsey – Dawn of the Anthropocene: How humans in a warming climate drove Pleistocene mammal extinctions and re-shaped California’s landscapes

Nikhil Chaudhary – Hunter-gatherers, evolutionary mismatch and mental disorder

Theo Samore – Traditionalism, pathogen avoidance, and competing tradeoffs during a global pandemic

Zarin Machanda – Social aging in wild chimpanzees

Past Presentations

Annie E. Wertz – How infants learn to eat plants (and why they may not want to)

Katrine Whiteson – May the Fiber Be with You: Gut Microbiomes from a remote Amazon village to the undergraduate lab

Hillard Kaplan – An evolutionary-physiological model of human energy management and the emergence of novel non-communicable diseases

Ny Vasil – Generic generalizations within and across contexts

Tage Rai – Incentivized punishers and moralistic offenders destabilize cooperation

Mike Frank – Bridging the data gap between children and AI models

Ryan Nichols – Lineage Fitness Theory and the Lineage Manipulation and Mutualism Mechanism: Bridging Evolutionary Social Sciences & Cultural Evolution

Justin Lund – Storytelling, sovereignty, and STEM

Daniel L. Bowling – Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications *Rescheduled from 1/13/25*

Nicholas Grebe – Snark Hunting and Non-Traditional Models for the Biology of Monogamy

David Pietraszewski – The evolutionary psychology of psychology

Cody Moser – Models of Collective Problem Solving: Bringing the Individual into Collective Intelligence

Irene Godoy – Kinship as constraint: Social aging in kin-structured groups

Andreas Wilke – The adaptivity of children’s search processes

Gary Brase – How to incite a scientific revolution: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration [Note special time and location]

Peter M. Todd – How people forage in space and mind

Kyle Wiley – Embodiment of Stress and Trauma in the Perinatal Period

Nelson Ting – Primate Extinction in the Anthropocene and the Tail of Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus

Marcia Inhorn – Motherhood on ice: The mating gap and why women freeze their eggs

Michael Greenfield – Rhythm coordination in animal species, including humans: Entrainment from bushcricket chorusing to the philharmonic orchestra

Kelsey Jorgensen – Surviving the heights: Environmental adaptations and multispecies genetics in the Andes

Jazlyn Mooney – On the Number of Genealogical Ancestors: Tracing to the Source Groups of an Admixed Population

David Reby – What can deer tell us about our voice? How sexual selection may have shaped human vocal diversity

Michael Campbell – The effect of population history on patterns of genetic diversity at the TAS2R bitter taste receptor genes in West Central and Central African populations

Eduardo Amorim – How Past Pandemics Shaped the Evolution of Human Immunity – Lessons from Ancient Genomes

Elsa Ordway – Insights from the tropics: a social-ecological systems approach to understanding climate change

Emily Lindsey – Dawn of the Anthropocene: How humans in a warming climate drove Pleistocene mammal extinctions and re-shaped California’s landscapes

Nikhil Chaudhary – Hunter-gatherers, evolutionary mismatch and mental disorder

Theo Samore – Traditionalism, pathogen avoidance, and competing tradeoffs during a global pandemic

Zarin Machanda – Social aging in wild chimpanzees

Daniel L. Bowling – Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications Rescheduled from 1/13/25