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- John Marshall Townsend
School of Medicine SUNY Health Science Center Syracuse University What women and men really want – hookups and the new polygyny Monday, April 26, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Biography John Marshall Townsend is currently Professor of Anthropology, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and Co-Director, Consortium for Culture & Medicine, Syracuse University, & Upstate Medical University […]
Monday, March 8, 2010 - Steve Nowicki
Professor of Biology Duke University Developmental Stress, Cognition, and the Problem of Honest Signaling Monday, April 19, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract The evolution of reliable, or “honest,” animal signaling presents an evolutionary paradox. Signalers are under selective pressure to bluff or otherwise exaggerate their signals in a way that maximizes their own […]
Friday, January 15, 2010 - Iain Couzin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups Monday, March 8, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract Grouping organisms, such as schooling fish, often have to make rapid decisions in uncertain and dangerous environments. Decision-making by individuals within such aggregates is so seamlessly integrated that it has […]
Friday, January 15, 2010 - William Harcourt-Smith
CUNY Lehman College There and Back Again: new research on the “hobbit” remains from South-East Asia, and why it matters. Monday, February 22, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract The last twenty years has heralded a significant change in the way researchers view human evolution. For instance, the powerful new field of molecular genetics […]
Friday, January 15, 2010 - Joan Silk
Department of Anthropology Center for Genetics and Society UCLA The Roots of Altruistic Preferences Monday, May 3, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract Humans are an unusually prosocial species. We vote, give blood, tithe, go to war, donate old clothes to charity, engage in collective action, conform to social norms, and punish transgressors. These […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - Nancy Easterlin
University of New Orleans Reproductive Choice and Autonomous Individuality in D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox: A Darwinian Feminist Perspective Monday, April 12, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract This talk will explore D.H. Lawrence’s classic novella The Fox from a Darwinian feminist perspective. Reconceptualized and rewritten in 1921 from a 1918 short story at […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - Melissa Emery Thompson
Research Assistant Professor University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology The Hidden Lives of Female Apes Monday, March 22, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Rescheduled for Friday, May 7, 2010 Biology department seminar Science 3 room 214, 4:00 PM Abstract Until recently, the factors that shape the life histories and social relationships of female […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - Bruce Hood
University of Bristol Department of Experimental Psychology Supernatural Belief: Me or Memes? Monday, March 15, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract Where do we get our supernatural beliefs from? And why do some seem more plausible than others? Are we simply just gullible meme-machines or is there some intrinsic origin for the unbelievable? In […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - Todd K. Shackelford
Florida Atlantic Univeristy Department of Psychology Director, Evolutionary Psychology Lab Sexual Coercion and Forced In-Pair Copulation as Sperm Competition Tactics in Humans Monday, March 1, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract Rape of women by men might be generated either by a specialized rape adaptation or as a by-product of other psychological adaptations. Although […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - Daniel Lende
Department of Anthropology University of Notre Dame Evolution, Behavior, and the Encultured Brain Monday, February 8, 2010 Science I 149, 5:00 PM Abstract Many modern behaviors, among them addiction, are insufficiently illuminated by modern evolutionary theory. Optimality analyses, universal algorithms, and past-present discordances often struggle to explain behaviors that are truly pathological and that are […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
