Evolution and Human Behavior Seminar Series (Fall 2006)
Tuesdays at 4:30 PM
206 Anthropology
Organizer: James Rilling

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Meera Modi, Sheila Sterk & Lisa Parr: “Chimpanzee pointing: Environmental affordances or social communication?”

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Lauren McCall, Research Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research:“The diversification of vertebrate locomotor strategies and the hominin brain”

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Jennifer Mascaro, Department of Antrhopology, Emory University: A discussion of “The primate cortico-cerebellar system: anatomy
and function”

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 FALL BREAK (no meeting)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Chet Sherwood, Department of Anthropology , The George Washington University:“Besides being big, what else is special about the human brain?”

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Todd Preuss:“Genetic changes in human brain evolution”

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Bethany Turner:“Fifteenth-century population dynamics at the Inka site of Machu Picchu, Peru.”

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Sudipta Basu and Gregory Waymire: “Correlates of recordkeeping in ethnographic data”

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

James Broesch, Department of Antrhopology, Emory University: “Parasite knowledge and long term health: The benefits of higher levels of local knowledge among the Tsimane' of Bolivia.”

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Bryce Carlson,Department of Antrhopology, Emory University: “DHA, the aquatic diet, and hominin encephalization: Difficulties in establishing evolutionary links”

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 To be determined
Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Carol Worthman, Department of Antrhopology, Emory University: “What goes around, comes around: the biosocial ecology of risk for depression in adolescence”

 

 

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