Binghamton Spring 2011
Spring 2011 seminars will be held Mondays at 5:00 PM in Science 1 Room 149 unless otherwise noted.
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)
Friday, April 1, 2011:
Sarah B. Hrdy,
University of California
, Department of Anthropology
(NEEPS 2011 keynote speaker)
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:
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
Binghamton Fall 2010
Fall 2010 seminars will be held Mondays at 5:00 PM in Lecture Hall 2 unless otherwise noted.
Josh Bongard, University of Vermont, Department of Computer Science
“Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution, and Cognition”
Fred Smith, Illinois State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
“Neandertals, Races and Assimilation Model of Modern Human Origins”
Darryl de Ruiter, Texas A&M University, Department of Anthropology
“Australopithecus sediba: a New Species of Homo-like Australopith from South Africa”
Jay Belsky, Birkbeck University of London, Department of Psychological Sciences
“Childhood Experience and the Development of Reproductive Strategies: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialisation Revisited”
Kari Segraves, Syracuse University, Department of Biology
“Untangling the entangled bank: direct and indirect effects of antagonism on mutualism”
Julie Seaman, Emory University
“Evolved Sex Differences and the Law of Sex Discrimination: A Conversation?”
Performance in Casadesus Recital Hall
Lisa Karrer & David Simons
“Schismism: Natural Law”
Rick Harrison, Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
“Speciation and the origin of barriers to gene exchange: identifying candidates and gene regions”
Rebecca Sear, London School of Economics, Department of Social Policy
“Are Humans Cooperative Breeders? A Review of the Empirical Evidence”
Tom Langen, Clarkson University, Departments of Biology and Psychology
“Avian Models of Search and Choice under Uncertainty”
Binghamton Spring 2010 (Please see the Binghamton University site for more details)
John Gowdy, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“An Evolutionary Perspective on Economics and Economic Policy”
Daniel Lende, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
“Evolution, Behavior, and the Encultured Brain”
William Harcourt-Smith, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Lehman College
“There and Back Again: new research on the “hobbit” remains from South-East Asia, and why it matters”
Todd Shackelford, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, Director, Evolutionary Psychology Lab
“Sexual Coercion and Forced In-Pair Copulation as Sperm Competition Tactics in Humans”
Iain Couzin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
“Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups”
Bruce Hood, University of Bristol
“Supernatural Belief: Me or Memes?”
Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans
“A Darwinian Feminist Perspective”
Steve Nowicki, Professor of Biology, Duke University
“Developmental Stress, Cognition, and the Problem of Honest Signaling”
John Townsend, Syracuse University
“What women and men really want-hookups and the new polygyny”
Joan Silk, Department of Anthropology, Center for Genetics and Society UCLA
“The Roots of Altruistic Preferences”
Melissa Emery Thompson, Research Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology
“The Hidden Lives of Female Apes”
Binghamton Fall 2009 (Please visit the Binghamton University site for details)
Liza Moscovice, Binghamton University
“Hedging their Bets? Explaining Long-term Investment in Juveniles by Male Baboons”
Diane M. Doran-Sheehy, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University
“The Evolution of Non-Conceptive Mating: new Insights from the Studies of Western Gorillas”
Karen Hollis, Professor of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College
“An Evolutionary Approach to Associative Learning”
Peter O. Gray, Research Professor of Psychology, Boston College
“The Human Ancestral Environment for Education, and Its Relevance for Education Today”
Chris Kuzawa, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
“Testosterone and Male Life History: Evidence for Developmental Adaptation in the Phillipines”
Steven Siegel
“Landscape to Life: An Artist’s View”
Rolf Quam, Anthropology Department, Binghamton University
“Recent Discoveries in the Sierra de Atapuerca”
Bill Jankowiak, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Desiring for Sex, Longing for Love: A Tripartite Conundrum”
Baba Brinkman
“A Rap Guide to Evolution”
Peter B. Gray, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Hormones and Human Childcare: Evolutionary and Proximate Dimensions of a Cooperative Breeder”
Massimo Pigliucci, Department of Philosophy,City University of New York-Lehman College “Evolutionary theory: toward an extended synthesis?”
Binghamton University Fall Schedule, 2008 (please visit The Binghamton University site for descriptions of talks)
David Sloan Wilson, Director of Evos, Binghamton University
“What’s New with Evos?”
Barbara Oakley, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University
“Why People Behave Badly”
“All-day symposium on the Binghamton Neighborhood Project”
Co-sponsored with the Center for Applied Community Research and
Development
Richard Michod,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Co-hosted with the Biology Department
“Cooperation and Conflict During the Evolution of Individuality in the Volvocine Green Algae”
Michael Bell,
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University
Co-hosted with the Biology Department
“How the Stickleback Lost its Pelvis: Fossils, Genes, and Natural Selection”
Randy Olsen,
Scientist turned Filmmaker
“Don’t be Such a Scientist!”
William Romey,
Department of Biology, SUNY Potsdam
Co-hosted with the Department of Biology
“Are Individuals Evolved to Choose Optimal Spatial Positions in a Group?”
Christine Reiber,
Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University
“Evolution and Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)”
Stephen Brown,
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University
“Human Vocalization: Its Evolution and its Use to Study Evolutionary Migrations”
Brian Boyd, Department of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand
“Telling Advantages: Storytelling as Adaptation?”Spring 2011 seminars will be held Mondays at 5:00 PM in Science 1 Room 149 unless otherwise noted.
