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In Winter/Spring 2008, the seminars are held at the University
of Washington on Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00 in Denny 401 (unless
otherwise noted), with live videoconferencing to Washington State University campuses in the rooms listed below.
To schedule a time to meet with visiting speakers, contact Josh Patrick
(ipem@u.washington.edu; 206-616-7743).
For each seminar listed below: click on the speaker's name to link to a personal web page; click on the seminar title for an abstract of the talk plus suggested background reading.
Listing of past seminars
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Winter/Spring 2008 |
Denny 401 (UW)
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Thursdays 3:30 – 5 PM
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Murrow 53 (WSU Pullman)
VCLS 110 (WSU Vancouver)
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January 10 |
John Marzluff
(U of Washington, Forest Resources)
Crows and cavemen: An evolving coevolution of culture |
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January 17 |
Steve Goodreau
(U of
Washington, Anthropology)
Social networks: An introduction for evolutionary modelers
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January 24 |
Rufus
Johnstone (U of Cambridge, Biology)
Kinship dynamics, reproductive competition and the evolution of menopause |
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January 31 |
Kathik Panchanathan
(UCLA, Anthropology)
Reputation, reciprocity and large-scale cooperation
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February 7 |
Alex Mesoudi (U
of Cambridge, Psychology)
Broken telephones, virtual arrowheads and cultural evolution: How cultural transmission experiments can inform an evolutionary science of human culture |
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February 14 |
Hal Whitehead (Dalhousie U,
Biology)
The rise and fall of cultures: Environmental variation, the evolution of cultural capacity, cultural conformism and societal collapse
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February 21 |
Joe
Henrich (U of British Columbia, Psychology & Economics)
The evolution of norms and institutions (including cooperative ones): Ethnographic and experimental evidence from Fiji |
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February 28 |
William
Harms (Seattle Central Community College, Philosophy)
Modeling gene-culture coevolution: Some theoretical considerations |
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April 17 |
Fraser
Neiman (Monticello, Archaeology & U of Virginia, Anthropology)
Early-modern commodities as costly signals: Clay tobacco pipes in the 17th-century British Atlantic |
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April 24 |
Aimee Plourde
(U College London, Center for Evolution of Cultural
Diversity)
Cultural transmission
and social evolution: Prestige, prestige goods, and the emergence of
hierarchical social structures
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