Past Presentations

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

Michael Wells – Exploration of human genetic and phenotypic diversity through cell villages

Katie Karlsgodt – Reward and Cognitive Function in Adolescent Psychopathology

Bridget Callaghan – Intergenerational impacts of adversity on mind-body health: pathways through interoception and the gut-brain axis

Caleb Finch – The Gero-Exposome, a life history approach to diversity of human longevity

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz – The 600-million-year history of human affective disorder

Ed Hagen – Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating, increased pathogen pressure, and the constitutive and inducible use of pharmacological plants in Homo

Jenny Tung – The social genome and primate evolution

Gerry Carter – Cooperative Relationships in Vampire Bats

Daniel Sznycer – Value Computation in Humans

Bernard Koch – White Supremacist Trees in An Academic Forest: Does Anybody Hear Them?

Melissa Emery Thompson – The Gray Ape: What Can Chimpanzees Tell Us About Human Aging?

Damian Caillaud – Behavioral ecology: an important tool to protect threatened gorilla populations

Dominic Cram – Cooperation, health and ageing: lessons from weaver-birds, meerkats and honeyguides

David Raichlen – Evolutionary links between physical activity and brain health

Cody Ross – Social networks, network-structured economic games, and a toolbox for fine-scale, comparative research

Sarah Hill – Cytokines as a mediator of condition-dependent behavioral strategies

Idan Blank – The relationship between language and executive functions

James Holland Jones — Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics Under Structural Uncertainty and the Consequences for Coupled Diffusion Processes

Herman Pontzer – Evolution, Activity, and Aging in Human Energy Expenditure

Kim TallBear – Indigenous STS, Governance, and Decolonization

Isabelle Laumer – Physical and social cognition in a parrot (Cacatua goffiniana) and ape model species (Pongo abelii)

Agustín Fuentes – Meaning-making, belief and world shaping as core processes in the human niche

Alyssa Crittenden – Microbiomania, rewilding, and the threat of bioprospecting: How anthropologists can help to set a more ethical research agenda in microbiome sciences

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