Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Dorsa Amir
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Given that the future is uncertain but inevitable, virtually every aspect of our decision making is influenced by preferences regarding risk and time. While these preferences have sometimes been viewed as inherent traits, I will offer an alternative perspective, arguing that they are adaptive strategies for managing the downside costs of uncertainty, shaped by early experience with the local socioecological environment. I will present the results of a cross-cultural investigation of preferences...
Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Stacy Rosenbaum
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Evolutionary and Ecological Approaches to Health and Development Group, Northwestern University
The evolutionary origins of human males’ flexible reproductive strategies, which can include intense bonding with offspring that is unusual for a mammal, continue to be a source of lively debate. Though male caretaking has typically been described as absent in other living great apes, strong social bonds between adult male and infant mountain gorillas (gorilla beringei...
DeVore Conference Room, Room 529, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street
Please join the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology on Wednesday, April 26th for the thesis presentations of the HEB senior class of 2017.... Read more about HEB Senior Thesis Symposium
Corinne Kratz, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology and Institute of African Studies and Director, African Critical Inquiry Program, Emory University; Research Associate, Museum of International Folk Art
How do implicit understandings and assumptions about race and ethnicity become embedded in museum exhibitions? How can museums and exhibitions...
Donald Reid, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Georgia State University; Affiliate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
Despite ideals of scientific and scholarly objectivity, both Egyptologists and non-specialists have often projected their own racial anxieties onto ancient Egypt. Recurrent attempts to...