Spring 2011

Spring 2011 seminars will be held Mondays at 5:00 PM in Science 1 Room 149 unless otherwise noted. Additional details about each speaker and seminar will be posted as the spring semester approaches. This schedule is subject to change.

January 24, 2011:

Introduction

David Sloan Wilson
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Departments of Biology and Anthropology
Binghamton University

January 31, 2011:

Symbolic Behavior, Behavioral Psychology, and the Clinical Importance of Evolution Science

Steven C. Hayes
University of Nevada, Reno
Clinical Psychology

February 7, 2011:

Is Case-Based Decision Theory Consistent with Empirical Patterns of Human Classification Learning?

Andreas Duus Pape and Kenneth Kurtz
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Departments of Economics and Psychology

February 14, 2011:

Mammals and Lice: Evolutionary Insights from Host-Parasite Associations

Jessica Light
Texas A&M University
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science

February 28, 2011:

How Women Compete for Mates

Maryanne Fisher
Saint Mary’s University
Department of Psychology

March 7, 2011:

Supply and Demand: A Special Case of the Laws of Cultural Motion?

Greg Urban
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Anthropology

March 14, 2011:

Variation in the occurrence of infanticide among nonhuman primates and female countertactics

Andreas Koenig & Carola Borries
Department of Anthropology
Stony Brook University (SUNY)

April 4, 2011:

The Tyneside Neighbourhoods Project: Investigating the behavioural ecology of a British city

Daniel Nettle
Newcastle University
Center for Behaviour and Evolution
(Also speaking Saturday 4/2/2011 at NEEPS 2011)

April 11, 2011:

Eating and being eaten: the ecology and evolution of caterpillar chemical defense

Deane Bowers
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

May 9, 2011:

Social Neuroscience of Cooperatively Breeding Primates

Charles Snowdon
Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Zoology
University of Wisconsin, Madison