Fall 2009

September 4, 2009:

Hedging their Bets? Explaining Long-term Investment in Juveniles by Male Baboons.

Liza Moscovice
Binghamton University

September 11, 2009:

The evolution of non-conceptive mating: New insights from studies of wild western gorillas

Diane M. Doran-Sheehy
Department of Anthropology
Stony Brook University

September 25, 2009:

Cognitive Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach to Associative Learning

Karen Hollis
Professor of Psychology and Education
Mount Holyoke College

October 2, 2009:

The Human Ancestral Environment for Education, and Its Relevance for Education Today

Peter O. Gray
Research Professor of Psychology
Boston College

October 9, 2009:

Testosterone and male life history: evidence for developmental adaptation in the Philippines

Chris Kuzawa
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Northwestern University

October 16, 2009:

There is no EvoS seminar on this date. However, a relevant conference on cooperation will be taking place at Cornell on this date.

October 23, 2009:

Landscape to Life: An Artist’s View

Steven Siegel

October 30, 2009:

Recent Discoveries in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)

Rolf Quam
Anthropology Department
Binghamton University

November 6, 2009:

Desiring Sex, Longing for Love: A Tripartite Conundrum

Bill Jankowiak
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

November 13, 2009:

The Rap Guide to Evolution

Baba Brinkman

November 20, 2009:

Hormones and Human Childcare: Evolutionary and Proximate Dimensions of a Cooperative Breeder

Peter B. Gray
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

December 4, 2009:

Evolutionary theory: toward an extended synthesis?

Massimo Pigliucci
Department of Philosophy
City University of New York-Lehman College