Fall 2010

Fall 2010 seminars will be held Mondays at 5:00 PM in Lecture Hall 2 unless otherwise noted.

August 30, 2010:

Course and Seminar Series Introduction
Liza Moscovice, Instructor

September 13, 2010:

Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution, and Cognition

Josh Bongard
University of Vermont
Department of Computer Science

September 20, 2010:

Neandertals, Races, and the Assimilation Model of Modern Human Origins

Fred Smith
Illinois State University
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

September 27, 2010:

Australopithecus sediba: a New Species of Homo-like Australopith from South Africa

Darryl de Ruiter
Texas A&M University
Department of Anthropology

October 4, 2010:

Childhood Experience and the Development of Reproductive Strategies: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialisation Revisted

Jay Belsky
Birkbeck University of London
Department of Psychological Sciences

October 25, 2010:

Untangling the entangled bank: direct and indirect effects of antagonism on mutualism

Kari Segraves
Syracuse University
Department of Biology

November 1, 2010:

Evolved Sex Differences and the Law of Sex Discrimination: A Conversation?

Julie Seaman
Emory University

November 8, 2010:

Schismism: Natural Law

Performance in Casadesus Recital Hall
Lisa Karrer & David Simons

November 15, 2010:

Speciation and the origin of barriers to gene exchange: identifying candidate genes and gene regions

Rick Harrison
Cornell University
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

November 22, 2010:

Are Humans Cooperative Breeders? A Review of the Empirical Evidence

Rebecca Sear
London School of Economics
Department of Social Policy

December 6, 2010:

Avian Models of Search and Choice under Uncertainty

Tom Langen
Clarkson University
Departments of Biology and Psychology