Autumn 2006

October 2

Michael O’Rourke (U of Idaho)
Employing philosophical dialogue in collaborative science
 

October 9

Robert Quinlan (WSU Anthropology)

Culture as a life history response to extrinsic risk

October 16

Sean Rice (Texas Tech U)
Developing an exact and universal evolutionary theory
 

October 23

Follow-on workshop using the toolkit presented by Michael O’Rourke on October 9, facilitated by Michael O’Rourke and Michael Trevisan
 

October 30

Jessica Lynch Alfaro (WSU Anthropology)
Does Obligate Social Learning Drive the Loss of "Innate" Behaviors?
 

November 6

John Hulsenbeck (UC San Diego)
How phylogeny—the genealogical relationships of life—can be estimated, and the genetic details of adaptation
 

November 13

Peter Jordan (U of Sheffield & CECD/U College London)
Exploring model-based approaches to hunter-gatherer transmission
 

December 4

Luke Harmon (U of British Columbia Biodiversity Centre)
Estimating rates of diversification from comparative data
 

Winter/Spring 2007

January 11

Carl Bergstrom (U of Washington, Biology)
     Manufacturing trust
 

January 18

Michael Trevisan (WSU, Assessment & Evaluation Center)
     IGERT assessment planning
 

January 25

Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute & U of Siena)

     Altruistic human nature: Empirical tests of evolutionary models

February 1

Robert Boyd (UCLA, Anthropology)

     Culture, ethnicity and the evolution of primordialism

February 8

Harald Yurk (U of British Columbia, Bioanthropology)

     Culture and population divergence in killer whales

February 15

Joseph Felsenstein (U of Washington, Biology & Genome Sciences)

     Discrete traits that are really continuous, and natural selection that is really geography

March 1

Michael S. Webster (WSU, Biology)

     Family feud: Social context and mating strategies in fairy-wrens

April 12

Alex Bentley (U of Durham & Center for Evolution of Cultural Diversity)

     Random copying and popular culture change: Distinguishing fashion from independent thinking

April 19

Michael Alvard (Texas A&M U, Anthropology)

     Hunting coalitions among the Lamalera whale hunters of Indonesia

April 26

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder & Mary C. Towner (UC Davis, Anthropology)

     Cultural macroevolution: Investigating trait transmission in Western North American Indians

Autumn 2007

September 17
 

Peter J. Richerson (U of California-Davis, Environmental Science & Policy)
     What was life in the late Pleistocene like?
 

September 27

Ed Hagen (Washington State U-Vancouver, Anthropology)
     Plant neurotoxins and human evolution
 

October 4

James Steele (U College London & Center for Evolution of Cultural Diversity)

     Social learning, economic inequality, and innovation diffusion in market economies

October 11

Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute)
     Building social organizations through niche construction: The role of robustness mechanisms
 

October 18

Daniel Hruschka (Santa Fe Institute)
     Boundary maintenance and the evolution of cooperation
 

October 25

Jeff Brantingham (UCLA, Anthropology)
     The style-function trichotomy
 

November 1

Nicole Hess (Washington State U-Vancouver, Anthropology)
     Informational warfare: the evolution of female coalitional competition
 

November 8

Megan Carney and Erik Gjesfjeld (IPEM Fellows, UW)
     Perceptions of Cebus capucinus: Preliminary Results of Costa Rica Survey Data (IPEM 2007 Team Project, Part I)
 

November 14
 

Kevin Laland (U of St. Andrews, Biology)
     Exploring gene-culture interactions: Insights from case studies
 

December 6

Chad Brock and Meredith Schulte (IPEM Fellows, WSU)
     Effects of Tourism on White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys in Central Pacific Costa Rica (IPEM 2007 Team Project, Part II)