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Dissertation Defense: "A Canine Window into Human Evolution: Brain Morphology, Asymmetry, and Plasticity"

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HEB grad student Sophie Barton will defend her dissertation entitled "A Canine Window into Human Evolution: Brain Morphology, Asymmetry, and Plasticity". Abstract: A central challenge in evolutionary neuroscience is understanding how selection on behavior...

Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat.

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The Harvard Gazette features an excerpt from Daniel Lieberman's new book “Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well.”

Evolution and Anatomy

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Complex genetic architecture underlies human hand and foot evolution.

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The transition to bipedal locomotion is a key event in human evolution, involving substantial changes to the skeleton, including the bones of the hands and feet (autopods). Hominins evolved a more muscular and opposable thumb while the other fingers are...

The Evolution and Ontogeny of Cultural Learning

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Cristine Legare, Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Texas at Austin Humans display a wide repertoire of socially acquired and transmitted behaviors that vary substantially across populations. Information is accumulated and transferred within...

Cristine Legare Colloquium Lecture: "The Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual"

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Abstract: Convergent developments across social scientific disciplines provide evidence that ritual is a psychologically prepared, culturally inherited, behavioral trademark of our species. I will draw upon the anthropological and evolutionary science...

Nina Jablonski Julia Booms Memorial Lecture: “The Evolution of Human Skin Color and Why it Matters”

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Abstract: Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin pigmentation has been used in the past as a basis for classifying people into races. Studies conducted in the...

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years...

HEB Colloquium: The Evolution of (un)Fairness

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Speaker: Sarah F. Brosnan Georgia State University, Departments of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine & Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center Abstract: The human sense of fairness is an evolutionary puzzle; why do...

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

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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...

Survival of the friendliest: convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans?

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Brian Hare, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University. Comparisons between chimpanzees and human infants suggest that humans develop cooperative communicative abilities that evolved since we shared a common ancestor. Brian will...

Brian Addison Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "The Biomechanics and Evolution of Impact Resistance in Human Walking and Running"

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Brian Addison (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology) will be presenting his doctoral dissertation defense titled, " The Biomechanics and Evolution of Impact Resistance in Human Walking and Running." This event is free and open to the...

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Dissertation Defense: "A Canine Window into Human Evolution: Brain Morphology, Asymmetry, and Plasticity"

Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat.

Evolution and Anatomy

Complex genetic architecture underlies human hand and foot evolution.

The Evolution and Ontogeny of Cultural Learning

Cristine Legare Colloquium Lecture: "The Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual"

Nina Jablonski Julia Booms Memorial Lecture: “The Evolution of Human Skin Color and Why it Matters”

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

HEB Colloquium: The Evolution of (un)Fairness

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

Survival of the friendliest: convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans?

Brian Addison Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "The Biomechanics and Evolution of Impact Resistance in Human Walking and Running"