Evolution and Human Behavior Seminar Series

Seminar Atmosphere: Refreshments will be served before (and after) speaker’s presentation

Time: Wednesday at 4:15pm to 5:30pm (the talk start promptly at 4:30pm)

Location: Geosciences 206 (Anthro Conference Room)

Organizers: John Kingston & Joe Henrich

Jan 28	Brent Berlin: How shall a thing be called: non-arbitrary principles of ethnobiological nomenclature
Feb 4	Jim Rilling: Investigating the brain's response to sexually selected traits in humans: some tentative ideas for a neuroimaging experiment
Feb 11	Frans B. M. de Waal : Simple and Complex Social Reciprocity in Capuchin Monkeys and Chimpanzees
Feb 18	Duane Rumbaugh: The Evolution of Primate Intelligence: A New Perspective of Learning and Reinforcement
Feb 25	Philippe Rochat and Tara Callaghan: Early social awareness in various cultures
March 3	Joe Henrich: Implication of Cultural Learning for Adaptation, Group Selection and Human Sociality
March 17	Carolyn Ehardt: Conserving the Threatened Endemic Primates of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania: Challenging Issues, Multifaceted Research
March 24	Carol Worthman: The evolutionary anthropology of sleep and state regulation
March 31	Ann Kruger: Homo Docens
April 7	Wendy Dirks: Stress, life history and dental development in baboons and vervet monkeys: Implications for understanding the fossil record in East Africa
April 14	No Meeting
April 21	John Kingston: Reconsidering Early Hominid Palaeoenvironments at Laetoli: The Isotopic Evidence
April 28	Michelle Lampl: TBA