Fall 2008

August 29, 2008:

What’s New With EvoS?

David Sloan Wilson
Director of EvoS
Binghamton University

September 5, 2008:

Why People Behave Badly

Barbara Oakley
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Oakland University

September 19, 2008:

Binghamton Neighborhood Project Symposium

Binghamton Neighborhood Project

October 3, 2008:

Cooperation and conflict during the evolution of individuality in the volvocine green algae

Richard Michod
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona

October 17, 2008:

How the Stickleback Lost its Pelvis: Fossils, Genes, and Natural Selection

Michael Bell
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Stony Brook University

October 27, 2008:

Don’t be such a scientist!

Randy Olson
Scientist turned filmmaker

October 31, 2008:

Are individuals evolved to choose optimal spatial postions in a group?

William Romey
Department of Biology
SUNY Potsdam

November 14, 2008:

Evolution and Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

Christine Reiber
Department of Anthropology
Binghamton University

November 21, 2008:

Human Vocalization: Its Evolution and its Use to Study Evolutionary Migrations

Steven Brown
Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour
McMaster University

December 5, 2008:

Telling Advantages: Storytelling as Adaptation?

Brian Boyd
Department of English
University of Auckland, New Zealand