Fall 2011

Fall 2011 seminars are held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in AA-G008.

The Evolutionary Studies seminar series presents a guest speaker on an evolution-related topic just about every week. It’s a great way to learn about evolution directly from a wide variety of scientists, and an excellent opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with researchers as well as your peers. Seminars are open to everyone. Students are encouraged to enroll in BIOL 480S, a 2-credit course based on the seminar series (to register, submit a petition to the biology department office).

August 29, 2011:

Introduction

David Sloan Wilson

September 19, 2011:

Can a Learned Behavior Evolve?

David C. Lahti
Department of Biology
Queens College, CUNY

September 26, 2011:

Urbanization and Landscape Change: Does Evolution Hold the Keys to Reaching Global Sustainability?

Richard R. Shaker
Departments of Environmental Studies and Geography
Binghamton University

October 3, 2011:

Miocene apes, early hominins and the coevolution of bipedalism and precision grasping

Sergio Almécija
Beatriu de Pinós fellow at Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
American Museum of Natural History

October 10, 2011:

The Evolution of Reasoning as an Argumentative Mechanism

Hugo Mercier
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
University of Pennsylvania

October 17, 2011:

The Origins of the Genus Homo

Leslie C. Aiello
President, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

October 24, 2011:

Species incidence and diversity in response to habitat loss and fragmentation: insights from fractal geometry

Mark E. Ritchie
Department of Biology
Syracuse University

November 7, 2011:

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Huckabee” – Creationism in Historical Perspective

Adam Laats
School of Education with Joint Title in Department of History
Director, Center for the Teaching of American History
Binghamton University

November 14, 2011:

Does Climate Matter? 30 Million Years of Ecology and Evolution on the US Gulf Coast

Linda Ivany
Department of Earth Science
Syracuse University

November 28, 2011:

Natural Experiments: Food Chain Disorders and Health Transitions in Isolated and Modernizing Populations

Ralph M. Garruto
Biology and Biomedical Anthropology
Binghamton University

December 5, 2011:

Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences

Adam Siepel
Biological Statistics & Computational Biology
Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics
Cornell University