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Keynote
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Randolph
Nesse
(Psychiatry,
Psychology,
Institute
for
Social
Research,
Evolution
and
Human
Adaptation
Program
at
the
University
of
Michigan)
is
a
physician
whose
work
ranges
from
the
neuroendocrinology
of
anxiety
to
the
evolution
of
altruism.
At
the
center
is
his
preoccupation
with
why
natural
selection
has
left
the
body
so
vulnerable
to
so
many
diseases.
In
collaboration
with
George
Williams
and
others,
this
has
given
rise
to
the
field
of
Darwinian
medicine.
Dr.
Nesse
actively
treats
patients
and
trains
residents.
His
current
mission
is
to
show
how
an
evolutionary
foundation
for
understanding
mental
disorders
can
make
psychiatry
more
effective. |
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Plenary
Speakers |
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Samuel
Bowles
(Behavioral
Sciences
Program,
Santa
Fe
Institute).
His
forthcoming
A
Cooperative
Species
(co
authored
with
Herbert
Gintis,
Princeton
University
Press,
2011)
documents
the
considerable
extent
of
altruistic
behavior
in
humans
and
provides
a
gene-culture
co-evolution
explanation
of
the
proliferation
of
these
behaviors
by
means
of
group
competition
for
reproductive
resources.
The
plausibility
of
this
model
is
demonstrated
using
agent
based
simulations
calibrated
with
archaeological,
genetic
and
other
data
on
pre-historic
and
recent
foraging
populations. |
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Tim
Clutton-Brock
is
Professor
of
Animal
Ecology
at
Cambridge.
His
research
focusses
on
the
evolutionary
causes
and
ecological
consequences
of
animal
breeding
systems
and
specialises
in
the
use
of
long-term,
individual-based
studies
of
naturally
regulated
animal
populations.
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Jean-Marie
Hombert
(Linguistics,
Lyon)
works
on
Language
dynamics
and
change.
His
recent
work
is
focused
on
the
emergence
and
evolution
of
Human
language.
He
is
also
interested
in
the
link
between
population
movements
and
language
dispersions
in
Africa
using
jointly
population
genetics
and
linguistic
data. |
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Sarah
Blaffer
Hrdy
is
Professor
emerita
of
Anthropology
at
the
University
of
California-Davis.
Her
books
include
the
Langurs
of
Abu,
The
Woman
that
Never
Evolved
(La
femme
qui
n'évoluait
jamais,
Petite
Bibliothèque
Payot),
Mother
Nature
(Les
instincts
maternels,
Plon)
and,
most
recently
Mothers
and
Others:
The
evolutionary
origins
of
mutual
understanding.
Her
current
research
focuses
on
the
emotional
and
cognitive
implications
of
humankind's
long
legacy
of
shared
care
and
provisioning
of
young. |
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Frank
Marlowe
(Anthropology,
Durham
University,
U.K.)
focuses
on
hunter-gatherers
in
cross-cultural
and
cross-species
perspective.
For
the
past
15
years
he
has
conducted
research
with
the
Hadza
of
Tanzania.
He
is
interested
mainly
in
sexual
selection,
parental
investment,
mating
systems,
cooperation,
and
the
sexual
division
of
foraging
labor. |
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Andrew
Whiten
(Centre
for
Social
Learning
and
Cognitive
Evolution,
University
of
St
Andrews)
studies
the
evolution
and
development
of
social
cognition
and
behaviour.
Recent
research
has
focused
on
social
learning,
traditions
and
culture
in
children
and
non-human
primates,
leading
to
inferences
about
the
foundations
of
culture
in
our
common
ancestors.
He
was
recently
awarded
the
Rivers
Medal
of
the
Royal
Anthropological
Institute
and
the
Osman
Hill
Medal
of
the
Primate
Society
of
Great
Britain. |
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