EvoS Program Seminar Speakers
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?"
SUNY New Paltz Spring Schedule, 2009
Gordon Gallup, Department of Psychology, SUNY Albany
"The Evolutionary Biology of Physical Attraction"
David Schmitt, Department of Psychology, Bradley University and Director of the International Sexuality Description Project
"Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioral Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 21st Century" (Darwin Day Speaker)
Warren Allmon, Department of Geology, Cornell University and Director of The Museum of the Earth
"What Did Darwin Do?"
David Livingstone Smith, Department of Philosophy, University of New England and Director of the New England Institute
"The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origin of War"
Justin Garcia, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University
"Intimacy, Infidelity, and the Individual"
Maryanne Fisher, Department of Psychology, St. Mary's University
"How Women Compete for Mates"
Alexei Savchenko, Department of Biology, University of Toronto
"Hooray! The Genome Project is Complete! What Happens Next?"
Ben Normark, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts
"Phylogeny and Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems in Armored Scale Insects"
Aaron Haselton, Department of Biology, SUNY New Paltz
"Diet, Sex, and Aging for Supermodels (supermodel organisms, that is)"
SUNY New Paltz Spring Schedule, 2008
Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
“The Evolution of Behavioral Sex Differences in Humans: A Public Discussion”
“What Would Darwin Say?”
Rebecca Burch, Department of Psychology, SUNY Oswego
“How Seminal Fluid has Evolved to Affect Female Psychology and Physiology”
John Long, Department of Biology, Vassar College
“Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis: Using Robots to Test Adaptation Hypotheses”
Anne Clark, Department of Biology, Binghamton University
“The Social Lives and Sometimes Hard Times of American Crows (Corvus Brachyrhynchos)”
Eugene Heath, Department of Philosophy, SUNY New Paltz
“Social Evolution Before Darwin”
Susan Hughes, Department of Psychology, Albright College
“Sex Differences in Romantic Kissing”
Scott Barry Kaufman, Department of Psychology, Yale University
“A Tale of Two Minds: Implications for Intelligence, Reasoning, and Creativity”