Spring 2010

Spring 2010 seminars will be held Mondays at 5:00 PM in Science I room 149 unless otherwise noted.

January 25, 2010:

An Evolutionary Perspective on Economics and Economic Policy

John Gowdy
Department of Economics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

February 8, 2010:

Evolution, Behavior, and the Encultured Brain

Daniel Lende
Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame

February 22, 2010:

There and Back Again: new research on the “hobbit” remains from South-East Asia, and why it matters

William Harcourt-Smith
Department of Anthropology
CUNY Lehman College

March 1, 2010:

Sexual Coercion and Forced In-Pair Copulation as Sperm Competition Tactics in Humans

Todd Shackelford
Florida Atlantic Univeristy
Department of Psychology
Directory, Evolutionary Psychology Lab

March 8, 2010:

Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups

Iain Couzin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University

March 15, 2010:

Supernatural Belief: Me or Memes?

Bruce Hood
University of Bristol

April 12, 2010:

Reproductive Choice and Autonomous Individuality in D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox: A Darwinian Feminist Perspective

Nancy Easterlin
University of New Orleans

April 19, 2010:

Developmental Stress, Cognition, and the Problem of Honest Signaling

Steve Nowicki
Professor of Biology
Duke University

April 26, 2010:

What women and men really want – hookups and the new polygyny

John Townsend
Syracuse University

May 3, 2010:

The Roots of Altruistic Preferences

Joan Silk
Department of Anthropology
Center for Genetics and Society
UCLA

March 22, 2010:
Rescheduled for May 7 Bio Dept Seminar

The Hidden Lives of Female Apes

Melissa Emery Thompson
Research Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
Department of Anthropology