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Spring 2024 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series

All events will be held virtually, click on the title of the talk to join!

Events indicated as in-person will be held at Coykendall Science Building Auditorium.

 

February 5th (in-person)

The Spencer Mass Memorial Lecture

The Enduring Force of Wilderness for People and Nature in a New Millennium

Eric Keeling, Ph.D. | State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

 

February 12th (in-person; CSB Aud)

The Darwin Day Event* 

Darwin’s Technological Nightmare: An evolutionary perspective on the downside of social media (and the upside of wilderness experiences)

Glenn Geher, Ph.D. | State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

 

February 26th (in-person; CSB Aud)

Assessing Threats to a Critically Endangered Lemur in Southeast Madagascar

Alexandra Shea, B.S. | University of California, Davis

6-7 p.m.

 

March 4th (in-person; CSB Aud)

Mechanisms of Group Vigilance in Humans*

Andrew Gallup, Ph.D. |  State University of New York Polytechnic Institute

6-7 p.m.

 

March 11th (in-person; CSB Aud)

A Bird's-Eye View of Suburbanization: Can We Build Better Towns and Villages for Wildlife and Humans?

Kara Loeb Belinsky, Ph.D. | State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

Livestream here

 

April 1st (in-person; CSB Aud)

Teaching Geology in the Wilderness

Alexander Bartholomew, Ph.D. | State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.
Livestream here

 

April 8th (in-person; CSB Aud)

Evolution of the Ammonoids and Mass Extinctions as Climate Disasters

Kate Lomedico Marriot, M.S. |  Brooklyn College & STEM Research Institute

6-7 p.m.

Livestream here

 

April 15th (Virtual)

Primates Gone Wild

Natalia Reagan, M.A. 

6-7 p.m.

Livestream here

 

May 6th (in-person; CSB Aud)

We Don’t Like You: How Online Trolls have Turned Cyberspace into the New Wilderness

Kyle Powell, State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

Livestream here

*In-Person attendance at this talk counts for 2 SONA credits for New Paltz Psychology students 

 

Spring 2023 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series

All events will be held virtually, click on the title of the talk to join!

Events indicated as in-person will be held at Coykendall Science Building Auditorium.

 

February 13th (in-person)

The Spencer Mass Memorial Lecture and Darwin Day Event

Ice-Volume & Climate Changes During Times of Elevated Atmospheric CO2: Looking Back to our Future

Stephen Pekar, Ph.D. | Queens College (City University of New York)

6-7 p.m.

 

February 27th

Making Sense of a Changing Climate– On the Earth and In Our Politics

Bill McKibben | Middlebury College

6-7 p.m.

 

March 6th*

Intrasexual Competition in Young Women’s Friendships

April Bleske, Ph.D. | University of WisconsinEau Claire

6-7 p.m.

March 27th (in-person)*

The Extended Discipline: The Far Reach of Evolutionary Psychology

Nate Pipitone, Ph.D. |  Florida Gulf Coast University

6-7 p.m.

 

April 3rd*

Women’s Cultivation of Bodyguards

Rebecka K Hahnel, Doctoral Candidate | University of Texas

6-7 p.m.

 

April 10th (in-person)*

To Ghost or to Be Ghosted: An Examination of the Social and Psychological Correlates Associated with Ghosting

Jacqueline Di Santo, M.A. | Marist College & State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

April 17th

The Nature of Evil

Anthony Volk, Ph.D. |  Brock University

6-7 p.m.

 

April 24th (in-person)*

The Contingencies of Human Evolution: Implications for Theoretical Frameworks in Evolutionary Psychology

Steven Gangestad, Ph.D. | The University of New Mexico

6-7 p.m.

 


 *This talk counts for 2 SONA credits for the Psychology Department Subject Pool (information on how to obtain credit will be provided near the start of the talk in the chat for the session)

 

All events will be held virtually, click on the title of the talk to join!

Spring 2022 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series

February 7th

SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION, RESPONSIBLE TRUTHFULNESS AND HYPONIC PHENOMENA

Four Arrows aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D. | Fielding Graduate University

6-7 p.m.

February 14th Darwin Day Extravaganza

SEXUAL COERCION AND FORCED INPAIR COPULATION AS SPERM COMPETITION TACTICS IN HUMANS*

Note: This talk includes some content related to sexual assault and violence.

Todd Shackelford, Ph.D. | Oakland University

6-7 p.m.

February 28th The Spencer Mass Memorial Lecture

ANTIOBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND THE SECRET SOCIETY HYPOTHESIS

Fabrizio Spagnolo, Ph.D. | Long Island University

6-7 p.m.

March 21st

BODY IMAGE AND ATTRACTION: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ACROSS GENDERS AND SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS*

David Frederick, Ph.D. | Chapman University

6-7 p.m.

March 28th

IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE BRAIN AND THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL*

Sara Hill, Ph.D. | Texas Christian University

6-7 p.m.

April 4th

OUR GRANDMOTHERS’ LEGACY: CHALLENGES FACED BY FEMALE ANCESTORS LEAVE TRACES IN MODERN WOMEN’S SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS*

Tania Reynolds, Ph.D. | University of New Mexico

6-7 p.m.

April 11th

THE LANGUAGE OF HUMAN MATING: EFFECTS OF VOICE PITCH AND SPEECH ARTICULATION ON MATING-RELEVENT PERCEPTIONS*

Sethu Karthikeyan, Ph.D. | PACE University

6-7 p.m.

April 18th

HIGH SPEED EVOLUTION 

Please use this link for the first hour and this link for the remainder of the talk.

David Clark, Ph.D. | State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

April 25th

MISMATCH: TRANSLATING CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY INTO AN AGGREGATION OF VARIOUS AESTHETIC MEDIUMS—ART AND ITS CONNECTION TO EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES

Brianna McQuade | State University of New York at New Paltz

6-7 p.m.

* Attendence at this talk will count for TWO subject pool credits in the New Paltz Psychology Department Subject Pool; attendence at each of these talks will count towards the SUNY New Paltz co-curricular transcript. 

Spring 2021 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series

February 15th

SUNY New Paltz's 16th Annual Darwin Day Event: Diversity in the Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences--A Symposium of the SUNY New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab

February 22nd

Exercise and the Evolution of Human Healthspan and Lifespan

Dan Lieberman, Ph.D.

Harvard University, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

 

March 1st

Stunning Wasps: Extraordinary Adaptations of the Most Terrifying Insects

Aaron Haselton, Ph.D.

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Biology

 

March 8th

When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault*

Note: This talk includes some content related to sexual assault and violence.

David Buss, Ph.D.

University of Texas, Department of Psychology

 

March 15th

Johnsen / Evolution and Sex Toys / EvoS Talk-20210315 2232-1*

Laura Johnsen, Ph.D. Candidate

Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology, 

 

March 22nd

Andrea Varga / Threads of Humanity / EvoS Talk-20210322 2233-1

Andrea Varga, Ph.D.

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Theatre Arts

 

March 29th

Au Naturel Selection: The Evolutionary Logic That Underlies Perceptions of Facial and Bodily Attractiveness*

Jaime Cloud, Ph.D.

Western Oregon University, Department of Behavioral Sciences

 

April 5th

The Ancestor's Trail: A Journey Through Time

Olivia Jewell, M.A. & Trent Reid, B.A.

Alum of the State University of New York at New Paltz (Psychology and Geography)

 

April 12th

Cat Food or Cat Fud? An Evolutionary Analysis of What We Feed Our Feline Friends, and Why

Jen Waldo, Ph.D.

 State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Biology

 

*This talk counts for 2 SONA credits for the Psychology Department Subject Pool (information on how to obtain credit will be provided near the start of the talk in the chat for the session)


 

Spring 2020 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series

"Sweet Home Hudson Valley"

 

February 10th

Nature & Science in Nineteenth-Century American Art

Kerry Carso, Ph.D.

 

February 12th

Darwin’s 211th Birthday Party / Survival of the Fittest, Rap Battle, and more!

Terrace - 630-830

 

February 24th

Evolutionarily Informed Mental Health: A Darwinian Approach to Clinical Practice

Daniel J. Glass, Ph.D.*

 

March 2nd

Evolution Meets AI in the Bedroom: The Future of Sex

Marianne Brandon, Ph.D.*

 

March 9th

Paramecium response to Holospora infection: What host factors allow the bacterium to infect?

Lydia Bright, Ph.D.

...(THEN THE PANDEMIC CAME ...)

 


 

2019 - Evolution and the Social World

 All events held in the Science Hall 181 & Reception to follow in the lobby

 

February 11th**

Darwin Day Extravaganza featuring renowned primatologist Natalia Reagan of Nat Geo’s StarTalk - “Going Ape: How Non-Human Primates Get it On!

Natalia Reagan, M.A.

5:00-6:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/8681e4c4c44a40c7959608ff65e18e8d1d

 

March 11th**

An Earlier Origin for Stone Tool Making: Implications for Cognitive and Social Evolution and the Transition to Homo

Jason Lewis, Ph.D.

Turkana Basin Institute & Stony Brook University, Department of Anthropology

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/d3480eb0271d4a3a964833dfe59d55f91d

 

March 25th**

Solar Events and the Human Experience: Why the Sunlight in Wooster Hall Matters

Raj Pandya, M.S.

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Astronomy and Physics

Joseph Diamond, Ph.D.

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Anthropology

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/b8f7274987eb4382aa5fb3effdb678fc1d

 

April 1st***

The Hidden Logic of Bad Decisions: How Development Influences Our Neurochemistry and the Choices We Make

Michael Frederick, Ph.D.

University of Baltimore, Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/70ead6b680f44eb586f9ab28291ab3541d

 

April 8th***

Let's Talk About Sex. Literally. How the Voice Can Inform Mating

Melanie Shoup-Knox, Ph.D.

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium
http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/27cd09d38de54dce8db167f51e17a4a41d

 

April 15th***

No Guts, No Glory: The Influence of Adolescent Risk-taking on Adolescent Popularity and Romantic Involvement

Cesar Rebellon, Ph.D.

University of New Hampshire, Department of Sociology

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/30d61f7eeba347b2822375bea5dd47601d

 

April 22nd***

The Evolved Classroom: Using Evolutionary Theory to Inform Education

Katie Gruskin

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Education

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

http://newpaltz.mediasite.suny.edu/Mediasite/Play/ae828321c5854ea5bac5d5d52d6365c11d

 

*Attendance at this talk will count for TWO subject pool credits in the New Paltz Psychology Department Subject Pool

**Attendance at each of these talks will count toward the SUNY New Paltz Co-Curricular Transcript

 


 

2018 - The Tree of Life: From Cosmic Origins to Today

All events held in CSB Auditorium at 6pm & Reception to follow at College Terrace

 

February 5th

The Big Bang: From A to B

Sten Odenwald, Ph.D.

NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

February 12th

The Solar System: From Birth to Death

Lou Mayo

NASA/GSFC Heliophysics Education Consortium

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

March 5th

Are We Alone? What We Know About Life in the Universe

Amy Bartholomew

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Physics & Astronomy

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

March 26th

Bone of Contention: How Vertebrates Got and Lost a Backbone

John H. Long, Jr., Ph.D.

Vassar College, Department of Biology

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

April 9th*

How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog: a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

Lee Dugatkin, Ph.D.

University of Louisville, Department of Biology

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

April 16th

Smashing Agassiz's Boulder: Giving Shock to Nearly All Men

Joseph L.  Graves, Jr.,  Ph.D.

North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Biological Sciences

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

April 23rd*

The Advent of Positive Evolutionary Psychology

Glenn Geher, Ph.D.

State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Psychology

6:00-7:30 p.m., CSB Auditorium

 

*Attendance at this talk will count for TWO subject pool credits in the New Paltz Psychology Department Subject Pool; Attendance at each of these talks will count toward the SUNY New Paltz Co-Curricular Transcript


 

2017

Feb. 6 (Beginning of Darwin Week!)

Evolutionary Medicine: A not so radical (but absolutely necessary) Paradigm for Modern Health and BehaviorP
Mandy Guitar, M.A.
Binghamton University
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: CSB AUD


Feb. 13 (Conclusion of Darwin Week)

Medicine without Evolution is like Engineering without Physics
Randy Nesse, M.D.
ASU
Department of Biological Life Sciences
6-7 p.m.
Location: CSB AUD via Zoom!


Feb. 27

Shaping Patient Behavior through an Evolutionary Lens
Lauren Vigna, M.D.
First Care Family Practice
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


Mar. 13 (Faculty Panel)

Evolution, Health, and Medicine
New Paltz Faculty Panel
SUNY New Paltz
6-7 p.m.
Location: CSB AUD


Apr. 3

Sex, Hormones, and the Evolution of Human BehaviorP
David Puts, Ph.D.
PSU
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: CSB AUD


Apr. 24

Self-Care, Group-Care, Earth-CareP
David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D.
Binghamton University
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102

 

PThis talk counts as two credits toward the Psychology Subject Pool via SONA Systems - http://newpaltz.sona-systems.com/


 

 

2016

Feb. 8

Signal Costs and Benefits of Aggression Displays
Thomas Nolen, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Biology 
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


Feb. 15

How Aggression has Shaped the Appearance of Primates
James Higham, Ph.D.
NYU
Department of Anthropology 
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


Feb. 29 (Leap Year!)

Extravagant Weapons: The Story Behind Arms Races in Animals and People
Doug Emlen, Ph.D.
University of Montana
Department of Humanities and Sciences 
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


March 7

Animal Hypnosis: The Role of Fear and Predation**
Gordon Gallup, Ph.D.
SUNY Albany
Department of Psychology 
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


March 14 (Pi Day!)

Evolution of Humans: Collaborative, Humane, Xenophobic, and Moralistically Violent
Paul M. Bingham, Ph.D. & Joanne Souza, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology   
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


April 11

Killers Among Us**
Joshua Duntley, Ph.D.
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences 
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102


April 18

The Role of Resemblance in Families and Beyond**
Rebecca Burch, Ph.D.
SUNY Oswego
Department of Human Development  
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102

 

** This talk counts as two credits toward the NP Psychology Subject Pool via SONA Systems - http://newpaltz.sona-systems.com/


 

 

2015

Feb. 12 - New Paltz's 10th Annual Darwin Day celebration - The Evolution and Art Interface

Featuring keynote address by Dr. Gabrielle Starr of NYU and talks by New Paltz's Glenn Geher, Andrew Higgins, Paul Kassel, and Andrea Varga.

Feb. 23
Songs and the Suburbs: What Birds Can Teach Us About Communication and Conservation
Kara Belinsky, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Biology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 100

MARCH 2 (RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER)

Lemur Evolution and Ecology
Patricia Wright, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102

March 9

311 Hotlines and the Maintenance of the Urban Commons: Examining the Intersection of Policy and the Evolved Human Animal

Dan O'Brien, Ph.D.
School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University; Boston Area Research Initiative, Harvard University
Department of Sociology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102

March 23

Primate Evolution in the Modern Age
Todd Disotell, Ph.D.
New York University
Department of Anthropology 
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102

April 6**
Facebook Frenemies and Selfie-Promotion: Intrasexual Competition in the Digital Age
Mandy Guitar, M.A.
Binghamton University Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102

April 13
Transcendental Medication: Defraying the Costs of Analysis Paralysis
Christopher Lynn, Ph.D.
The University of Alabama
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC102

April 20**

The Evolutionary Psychology of Breaking up and Making up
Joel Wade, Ph.D.
Bucknell University
Department of Psychology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC102

 

** This talk counts as two credits toward the NP Psychology Subject Pool via SONA Systems - http://newpaltz.sona-systems.com/


 

 

2014

Feb. 10
Paleoneurology and Human Brain Evolution
Ralph Holloway, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location: LC 100

Feb. 12
Plants and People in the Intermountain High Desert:  From Hunter-Gatherer to Sustainable Landscapes
William Varga
Utah Botanical center
7-8 p.m.
Location: CSB Auditorium

Feb. 24
On how wrestling rhinoceros beetles, drinking LOVExCOLA and similar adventures, aka public and lifestyle experiments, may produce a bio-diverse, tasty and desirable future
Natalie Jeremijenko, Ph.D.
New York University
Department of Art
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location: LC 102

March 10
From Ardipithecus to agriculture: The science of diet and human evolution
Ken Nystrom, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location: LC 102

March 24
When one male is not enough: The diversity of primate mating systems
Andreas Koenig, Ph.D.
Stony Brook university
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location: LC 102

April 7
Differing Models for Faunal Turnover Events Within the Devonian of the Appalachian Basin  
Alex Bartholomew, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Geology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location: LC 102

*April 21
Primate Sexual Behavior - Confirmations, Continuums and Cautions
Craig Bielert, Ph.D.
SUNY Oneonta
Department of Psychology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location: LC 102

*Attendance at this talk will count for TWO subject pool credits in the New Paltz Psychology Department Subject Pool

 

PAST SEMINAR SERIES

2013

*Feb. 11 - Happy Darwin Day!
Sexual Selection and Runaway Consumerism
Geoffrey Miller, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico - Department of Psychology
Visiting Professor at New York University's Stern Business School
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC100  

March 4
Neanderthal Evolution- Surfing the genomic wave: archaic hominin hybridization with modern humans
Todd Disotell, Ph.D.
New York University
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

March 11
Survival of the Beautiful
David Rothenberg, Ph.D.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Department of Humanities
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

*March 18
Two Man and a Baby: The Reproductive Success of Homosexual Males
Sarah Strout, Ph.D.
Dominican College
Department of Psychology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

April 1
How hip is human life history?
Holly Dunsworth, Ph.D.
University of Rhode Island
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

April 8
Back to the Past: The Industrial Revolution, the Digital Revolution, and "New" Paradigms for Living in a Rapidly Changing World
Hamilton Stapell, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of History
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

*April 15
Why do we yawn?  Integrating neuroscience, physiology, and evolutionary theory 
Andrew Gallup, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College
Department of Psychology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

*April 22
Evolved This Way: Evolutionary Approaches to Clinical Psychology
Daniel Glass, M.A.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Department of Psychology
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Location LC102  

*Attendance at this talk will count for TWO subject pool credits in the New Paltz Psychology Department Subject Pool

Special Events

Talks from the EvoS Summit (2012; New Paltz, NY) found here.

Feb. 21
Ecological Consciousness: The Metaphysics of the Human Being
Andrew Faust
Permaculture Teacher and Designer
6-7 p.m.
Location LC100  

2012

SPECIAL VIDEOS OF THE EVOS SUMMIT (Oct. 26, 2012):

Introductory Remarks by Glenn Geher (Director of EvoS at SUNY New Paltz) and Don Christian (President of SUNY New Paltz)

and Introductory Keynote Address by Gordon Gallup (SUNY Albany) – Evolutionary Medicine – Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Studies in Action

Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education: Into the Gray and Out Again (Rosemarie Sokol Chang [APA and SUNY New Paltz]; Jennifer Waldo [SUNY New Paltz];  Glenn Geher, [SUNY New Paltz])

Building EvoS Programs is not Always Easy (Rebecca Burch [SUNY Oswego] & Kristina Spaulding [SUNY Albany])

Evolutionary Studies from the Student Perspective (Rachael Carmen [SUNY New Paltz], Daniel Glass [UMASS Boston] and Amanda Guitar [SUNY New Paltz])

 EvoS Online: Deep History Meets the Future (Kevin Sheridan [Binghamton University; Broome Community College] and Hadassah Head [Binghamton University])

Evolution and Human Health: EVO 201 and Connections with Robb Wolf’s Paleo Solution (Hamilton Stapell, SUNY New Paltz)

The Natural Sciences, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: An Evolutionary Biological Theory of Human Uniqueness Puts it all Together (Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza [Stony Brook University])

Capstone Address: EvoS, The Binghamton Neighborhood Project, and the Future of Evolution in Higher Education (David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University)

Feb. 6
Whining is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Rosemarie Sokol Chang, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Psychology
5:30-6:30 p.m.
CSB Auditorium

Feb. 13
The Prince of Evolution

Lee Dugatkin, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
Department of Biology
5:30-6:30 p.m.
CSB Auditorium

Feb. 27
Darwinian Medicine: Maybe There IS Something to this Evolution Thing
Robb Wolf
www.robbwolf.com
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Reception/Book signing to follow, 6:45 p.m. in the Terrace
Lecture Center 100; more details here!

March 5
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
5:30-6:30 p.m.
CSB Auditorium

April 2
Why Ask, "How?"
Adam Goldstein, Ph.D.
Iona College
Department of Philosophy
5:30-6:30 p.m.
CSB Auditorium

April 9
Where Personality Meets the Page: Evolution and Adaptive Self-Expression in Alice Andrews’s Trine Erotic
David Michelson
Binghamton University
Department of English
5:30-6:30 p.m.
CSB Auditorium

April 30
Evolved to Cabaret: Expressing Human Behavioral Evolution Through Costume Design
Andrea Varga & Laura Johnsen
SUNY New Paltz
Department of Theatre Arts
5:30-6:30 p.m.
CSB Auditorium


2011

Feb. 7
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!

Feb. 21Sex 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 p.m.

Feb. 28Evolution and Women's Health
Chris Reiber, Ph.D.

State University of New York at Binghamton
Department of Anthropology
5:30-6:30 p.m.

March 7**
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 p.m.

March 14The 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 p.m.

March 28
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 .m.

April 4
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 p.m.

April 11
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 p.m.

April 25
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 p.m.

Dec. 1 (2011)
From Singles to Swingers: Biopsychosocial Views on Contemporary Human Sexual Behavior
Justin Garcia, Ph.D.
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Indiana University
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Lecture Center 100 


2010


Darwin Day
Monday Feb. 8, 2010
Niles Eldredge

American Museum of Natural History Paleontology
LC 100

Mutualists, Pathogens, and the Evolution of Sex in Wild Garlic
Monday Feb. 22, 2010
Margaret Ronsheim, Ph.D.

Vassar College
Department of Biology
Director of Environmental Studies
LC 102, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

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
-8:30 p.m.

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Saturday March 27, 2009
Richard Wrangham, Ph.D.

Harvard University
Department of Anthropology
CSB Auditorium, 6-7 p.m.

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 p.m.

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 p.m.

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 p.m.
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 Feb. 12, 2009! Happy Birthday Charles!

The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective *Feb, 9, 2009 Gordon Gallup, psychologist, University at Albany

Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioral Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 21st Century (Darwin Day Speaker) *Feb. 12, 2009 (THURSDAY) David Schmitt, psychologist, Bradley University and Director of the International Sexuality Description Project

What Did Darwin Do? *Feb. 16, 2009 Warren Allmon, geologist, Cornell University and Director of The Museum of the Earth

The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origin of War *March 2, 2009 David Livingstone Smith, philosopher, University of New England and Director of the New England Institute

Intimacy, Infidelity, and the Individual *March 9, 2009 Justin Garcia, anthropologist, Binghamton University

How Women Compete for Mates *March 23, 2009 MaryAnne Fisher, psychologist, St. Mary's University

Phylogeny and Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems in Armored Scale Insects April 13, 2009 Ben Normark, biologist, University of Massachusetts

Diet, Sex, and Aging for Supermodels (supermodel organisms, that is) April 20, 2009 Aaron Haselton, biologist, SUNY New Paltz


 

2008

Feb. 6 (W)

• A. From 3-4:30 p.m., 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 p.m. 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

RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER - originally slated for Feb. 9 - look for notices on reschedule!

Lemur Evolution and Ecology

Patricia Wright, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University
Department of Anthropology
6-7 p.m.
Location: LC 102