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More info on the speakers and talks can be found here.2012
February 6th
Whining is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Rosemarie Sokol Chang, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Psychology
5:30pm-6:30pm
CSB Auditorium
February 13th
The Prince of Evolution
Lee Dugatkin, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
Department of Biology
5:30pm-6:30pm
CSB Auditorium
February 27th
Darwinian Medicine: Maybe There IS Something to this Evolution Thing
Robb Wolf
www.robbwolf.com
5:30pm-6:30pm
Reception/Book signing to follow, 6:45pm in the Terrace
Lecture Center 100; more details here!
March 5th
Men at Risk: Understanding Sex Differences in Human Mortality Rates with an Evolutionary Life History Framework
Dan Kruger, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
School of Public Health
5:30pm-6:30pm
CSB Auditorium
April 2nd
Why Ask, "How?"
Adam Goldstein, Ph.D.
Iona College
Department of Philosophy
5:30pm-6:30pm
CSB Auditorium
April 9th
Evolution, Personality, and the Varieties of Fictional Experience
David Michelson
Binghamton University
Department of English
5:30pm-6:30pm
CSB Auditorium
April 30th
Evolved to Cabaret: Expressing Human Behavioral Evolution Through Costume Design
Andrea Varga & Laura Johnsen
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Theatre Arts
5:30pm-6:30pm
CSB Auditorium
PAST SEMINAR SERIES
2011
February 7th
State of EvoS New Paltz
Part 1; Part 2
- Presentations on the SEVERAL new courses being added to the New Paltz curriculum to serve the EvoS program
- A summary of the grant activities funded by the National Science Foundation
- The future of EvoS New Paltz - And More!
February 21st
Sex Differences in Hero Creation: A Sociobiological Analysis of Children's Fantasy Literature* Victoria Ingalls, Ph.D.
Marist College
Department of Biology
5:30-6:30
February 28th
Evolution and Women's Health
Chris Reiber, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Binghamton
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:30
March 7th**
AEPS - Inaugural meeting of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
featuring Nick Armenti, Nando Pelusi, Jon Raskin, and Jerome Wakefield
4:30-7:10
March 14th
The Demise of the Dinosaurs: A Biotic Crisis or a Biotic Revenge?*
Gordon Gallup, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Albany
Department of Psychology
5:30-6:30
March 28th
Exploiting Evolution at the Molecular Level
Jeff Reinking, Ph.D.
State University of New York at New Paltz
Department of Biology
5:30-6:30
April 4th
SEEKING and PLAYING: Affective Infrastructures and the Evolutionary Function of Sport* Leslie Heywood, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Binghamton
Department of English
5:30-6:30
April 11th
How Natural Selection Produced Humans- How Humans Produce Knowledge*
Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
5:30-6:30
April 25th
Eels, and Naming Nature
James Prosek
Author of Eels An Exploration, From New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Amazing and Mysterious Fish; Bird, Butterfly, Eel; and The Day My Mother Left.
5:30-6:30
2010
• Darwin Day
Monday February 8, 2010
Niles Eldredge
American Museum of Natural History Paleontology
LC 100
- 4:30-5:30 - Discussion/Presentation of Evolutionary Studies Consortium, EvoS Journal, and Evolution: Education and Outreach given by Glenn Geher along with Greg, Michelle, and Niles Eldredge
- 5:30-6:30 - Public Lecture by Niles Eldredge - Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
- 6:30-7:30 - Questions / Discussion
(Co-sponsored by Mid-Hudson Teacher Center)
• Mutualists, Pathogens, and the Evolution of Sex in Wild Garlic
Monday February 22, 2010
Margaret Ronsheim, Ph.D.
Vassar College
Department of Biology
Director of Environmental Studies
LC 102, 5:30-6:30
• Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: when Natural History and History Collide
Monday March 8, 2010
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
Department of Biology
• The International Evolutionary Studies Consortium and the Evolution Institute
A special session of the 4th Annual NEEPS conference
Friday March 26, 2010
David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D.
Binghamton University
• Sex and the Scala Naturae
Friday, March 26, 2010
Marlene Zuk, Ph.D.
University of California
Department of Biology
LC 100, 7:00-8:30
• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Saturday March 27, 2009
Richard Wrangham, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Department of Anthropology
CSB Auditorium, 6:00-7:00
• Molecular aspects of co-evolution of bacteria and their eukaryotic hosts- Gentle diplomacy or Trojan War tactics
Monday April 5, 2010
Alexei Savchenko, Ph.D.
University of Toronto Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Banting & Best Dept. of Medical Research
LC 102, 5:30-6:30
• Nurturing Nature: Epigenetics and the Transmission of Behavior Across Generations
Monday April 12, 2010
Frances A. Champagne, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Department of Psychology
LC 102, 5:30-6:30
• Stability and Crisis in Devonian Seas: Evolutionary Paleoecology and Coordinated Stasis
Monday April 19, 2010
Carl Brett, Ph.D.
University of Cincinnati Department of Geology
LC 102, 5:30-6:30
Sponsored by the Evolutionary Studies Program, The Evolutionary Studies Club, and the National Science Foundation
** This talk is an EvoS Seminar AND an invited presentation of the 4th annual meeting of the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) – sponsored by Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Major Connections, Psychology Department, School of Science and Engineering.
2009
Darwin's 200th birthday was February 12, 2009! Happy Birthday Charles!
The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective *02.09.09 Gordon Gallup, psychologist, University at Albany
Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioral Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 21st Century (Darwin Day Speaker) *02.12.09 (THURSDAY) David Schmitt, psychologist, Bradley University and Director of the International Sexuality Description Project
What Did Darwin Do? *02.16.09 Warren Allmon, geologist, Cornell University and Director of The Museum of the Earth
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origin of War *03.02.09 David Livingstone Smith, philosopher, University of New England and Director of the New England Institute
Intimacy, Infidelity, and the Individual *03.09.09 Justin Garcia, anthropologist, Binghamton University
How Women Compete for Mates *03.23.09 MaryAnne Fisher, psychologist, St. Mary's University
Phylogeny and Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems in Armored Scale Insects 04.13.09 Ben Normark, biologist, University of Massachusetts
Diet, Sex, and Aging for Supermodels (supermodel organisms, that is) 04.20.09 Aaron Haselton, biologist, SUNY New Paltz
2008
February 6 (W)
• A. From 3:00-4:30 pm, the work of Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, will be the focus of
The Evolution of Behavioral Sex Differences in Humans: A Public Discussion. Honors Center (in College Hall). Click HERE for the video (you need realplayer; see realplayer.com for a free download).
•B. at 6:00 pm Darwin Day Lecture titled "What Would Darwin Say?" to be given by Dr. Tiger. LC 102.
» See the Biology Department Homepage for a nostalgic set of photos of this event! (see: http://www.newpaltz.edu/biology/news.cfm?id=3887)• March 3 (M) - Rebecca Burch, SUNY Oswego, Psychology Department How Seminal Fluid Has Evolved to Affect Female Psychology and Physiology
• March 10 (M) - John Long, Vassar College, Biology Department Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis: Using Robots to Test Adaptation Hypotheses
• March 31 (M) - Anne Clark, Binghamton University, Biology Department The Social Lives and Sometimes Hard Times of American Crows (Corvus Brachyrhynchos)
• April 7 (M) - Eugene Heath, SUNY New Paltz, Philosophy Department Social Evolution Before Darwin
• April 14 (M) - Susan Hughes, Albright College, Psychology Department Sex Differences in Romantic Kissing
• April 28 (M) - Scott Barry Kaufman, Yale University, Psychology Department A Tale of Two Minds: Implications for Intelligence, Reasoning, and Creativity
