Spring 2009

January 30, 2009:

Ending Youthanasia: Evolutionary Understanding Meets a Retail-Driven Prevention Science Model

Dennis Embry
CEO/President of Paxis Institute

February 20, 2009:

Inter-generational Transmission of Fertility during the Demographic Transition

David Hacker
Department of History
Binghamton University

February 27, 2009:

Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience: The Newest Science of the Mind

Steven Platek
Psychology, Georgia Gwinnett College
Research Associate, Magnetic Resonance Image and Analysis Center, University of Liverpool

March 13, 2009:

Reproductive aging in non-human primates: Menopause is not just for humans anymore

Sue Margulis
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
University of Chicago

March 20, 2009:

Intentionality in All its Guises

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Scientist with Special Standing
Great Ape Trust of Iowa

March 27, 2009:

Discriminating affiliations, textured prejudices, and other implications of the human affordance management system

Steven Neuberg
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University

April 3, 2009:

Explaining Religion

Harvey Whitehouse
School of Anthropology
University of Oxford

April 17, 2009:

House Hunting by Honey Bees: A Study of Effective Group Decision Making

Thomas Seeley
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University

April 24, 2009:

Darwin, the Methods of Science, and the Methods of Literature

George Levine
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Rutgers University
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, New York University

May 5, 2009:

The Drive to Love and Who We Choose

Helen Fisher
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University