Behavioral Bio & Cultural Evolution

Dr. Helen Elizabeth Davis

Postdoctoral Fellow, Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab

Office Location:
Museum of Comparative Zoology 533B
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Mailing Address:
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

helendavis@fas.harvard.edu

Dr. Duman Bahrami-Rad

Postdoctoral Fellow, Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab

Personal Website

Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab, 533C
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02138

duman_b_rad@fas.harvard.edu

2018 Sep 28

HEB Colloquium: "Universal Norm Psychology Underlies Cross Cultural Variation in Prosocial Behavior"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Professor Joan Silk

Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

Professor, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University

2018 Sep 27

HEB Colloquium: "Third Party Monitoring and the Evolution of Reciprocity"

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Professor Robert Boyd

Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

Cooperation based on reciprocity is undermined by perception errors, mistakes that cause interacting individuals to disagree about past behavior. Strategies like Win-Stay-Lose-Shift (WSLS) and Generous Tit for Tat (GTFT) can reestablish cooperation following a perception error but only when errors arise infrequently. Here I introduce a strategy that relies on third-party arbitration to resolve disagreements, and show that...

Dr. Martin Surbeck

Assistant Professor

Reproductive strategies are believed to be one of the major forces that shape the variability we observe in social organization among mammals. My research...

Tiffany Hwang

Culture, Cognition, & Coevolution Lab Manager

My research interests for future graduate study are the evolutionary underpinnings of status and prestige. In 2018, I earned a B.A. in Psychology ... Read more about Tiffany Hwang

Dr. Erin Hecht

Assistant Professor

My lab’s research asks how brains change in response to selection pressure on behavior, and how brains acquire heritable adaptations for complex, learned...

CANCELLED: This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution and Evolving the Future

11:30am

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

CANCELLED: Julia Booms Memorial Lecture

David Sloan Wilson, Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology, Binghampton University.... Read more about CANCELLED: This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution and Evolving the Future

Nutritional Ecology Lab

Our lab supports nutritional analyses of foods eaten by humans (Hadza, Ju-Hoansi), great apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas), and monkeys (...

Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab

Research conducted at the Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Laboratory aims to construct a vertically integrated approach to culture and cultural evolution that synthesizes theory and methods from across the sciences, particularly from...

Cognitive Evolution Group

A chimpanzee at Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo heads into the forest.
A...

Dr. Rachel Carmody

Assistant Professor

I seek to understand how the human body acquires and utilizes energy, and how past changes in energy budget have shaped...

Dr. Joseph Henrich

Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Joseph Henrich's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes...

Dr. Richard W. Wrangham

Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies

Richard Wrangham (PhD, Cambridge University, 1975) is Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale...

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