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- Helen Fisher
Department of Anthropology Rutgers University The Drive to Love and Who We Choose Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Watters Theater, 7:00 PM Abstract Anthropologist Helen Fisher distinguishes three primary drives that evolved for mating and reproduction: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment and discusses how these three brain systems interact. Using her and her colleagues’ [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - George Levine
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Rutgers University Distinguished Scholar in Residence, New York University Darwin, the Methods of Science, and the Methods of Literature Friday, April 24, 2009 Lecture Hall 8, 4:00 PM Abstract The seminar will focus on the development of Darwin’s ways of questioning nature, particularly on the pre-evolution Beagle Voyage, and attempt [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Harvey Whitehouse
School of Anthropology University of Oxford Explaining Religion Friday, April 3, 2009 Lecture Hall 8, 4:00 PM Abstract Much research in the cognitive science of religion emphasizes that some features of religious thinking and behaviour are universal, arising from our species’ evolutionary history. Examples include certain qualities attributed to supernatural agents (e.g. gods and ghosts), [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Steven Neuberg
Department of Psychology Arizona State University Discriminating affiliations, textured prejudices, and other implications of the human affordance management system Friday, March 27, 2009 Engineering Building 110, 4:00 PM Abstract The human psyche was designed by natural selection to manage the threats and opportunities afforded by the physical and social ecologies inhabited by early humans and [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Scientist with Special Standing Great Ape Trust of Iowa Intentionality in All its Guises Friday, March 20, 2009 Lecture Hall 8, 4:00 PM Abstract When the capacity for ‘meta-behavior,’ or communicative behavior ‘about behavior’ arises in a population, the perceptual and mental worlds of individual members become organized differently and natural selection (as well as [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Sue Margulis
Committee on Evolutionary Biology University of Chicago Reproductive aging in non-human primates: Menopause is not just for humans anymore Friday, March 13, 2009 Engineering Building 110, 4:00 PM Abstract Menopause, as applied to humans, is defined as the cessation of menstruation that results from loss of ovarian activity followed by an extended post-reproductive lifespan. A [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Steven Platek
Psychology, Georgia Gwinnett College Research Associate, Magnetic Resonance Image and Analysis Center, University of Liverpool Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience: The Newest Science of the Mind Friday, February 27, 2009 Engineering Building 110, 4:00 PM Abstract Since Darwin and the Neosynthesis we have known that evolution has shaped all organisms and that biological organs—including the brain and [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - David Hacker
Department of History Binghamton University Inter-generational Transmission of Fertility during the Demographic Transition Friday, February 20, 2009 Engineering Building 110, 4:00 PM Abstract At the beginning of the nineteenth century the average woman in the United States gave birth to eight children. Today the average is two. This seminar will begin with an overview of [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Dennis Embry
CEO/President of Paxis Institute Ending Youthanasia: Evolutionary Understanding Meets a Retail-Driven Prevention Science Mode Friday, January 30, 2009 Engineering Building 110, 4:00 PM Abstract Through selection-by-consequences, US and global businesses are highly successful in selling products and altering policies that have increased morbidity and mortality of young people through multiple causes, such as mental illnesses, [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
