Spring Semester 2008

• 18 January 2008
  • Burkart JM. et al. 2007. Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically. PNAS 104:50. pdf
• 25 January 2008
  • Wrangham RW. et al. 2006. Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans. Primates 47:14-26. pdf
• 1 February 2008
  • Floreano et al 2007. Evolutionary conditions for the emergence of communication in robots. Current Biology 17, 514-519. pdf
  • Fieder F. and Huber S. 2007. The effects of sex and childlessness on the association between status and reproductive output in modern society. Evolution  and Human Behavior 28, 392-398. pdf

8 February 2008
     Efferson C. et al. 2007. Learning, productivity, and noise: an            
     experimental study of cultural transmission on the Bolivian Altiplano.   
     Evolution  and Human Behavior 28: 1-17. pdf     
15 February 2008         
     Pillsworth EG. 2008. Mate preference among the Shuar of Ecuador: trait  rankings and peer evaluation.
     Paper in press at Evolution and Human Behavior. pdf
22 February 2008
       Henrich J, R McElreath et al. 2006. Costly punishment across human    
      societies. Science 312:1767-1770. pdf

       Marlowe F & JC Berbesque  2007.  More 'altruistic' punishment in larger societies. 
       Proceedings of the  Royal society B. pubished online doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1517. pdf
29 February 2008
        Sear R & R Mace. 2008. Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival.
       Evolution and Human Behavior 29 (2008) 1–18. pdf.
7 March 2008
       Kramer KL & GP McMillan. 2006. The effect of labor-saving technology on
      longitudinal fertility changes. Current Anthropology 47 (1):165-72. pdf.
14 March 2008
     Obendorf et al. 2008. Are the small human-like fossils found on   Flores human endemic cretins?
      Proceedings of the Royal Society B. published online doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1488.pdf
      http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080304/full/news.2008.643.html
    Berger et al. 2008. Small-bodied humans from Palau,
    Micronesia. PLoSOne volume 3 issue 3 e1780.pdf
      http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080310/full/452133a.html
21 March 2008  Spring Break
28 March 2008
      Migliano AB et al. 2007. Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies. PNAS 1004:20216-20219. pdf.
4 April 2008
    Watts DP. 2008. Scavenging by chimpanzees at Ngogo and the relevance of
    chimpanzee scavenging to early hominin behavioral ecology. Journal of Human Evolution 54:125-33. pdf.
11 April 2008
    Herrmann E et al. 2007. Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis. Science 317, 1360-1366. pdf.
    de Waal F et al. 2008. Comment on Herrman et al; Herrmann et al. reply. Science 319, 569-70. pdf.
18 April 2008
    Tomasello M & M Carpenter. 2007. Shared intentionality. Developmental Science 10, 121-125. pdf.

Fall Semester 2007

• 31 August 2007  

  • Orr HA. 2005. The genetic theory of adaptation: A brief history. Nature Reviews: Genetics.  6:19-127. pdf

• 7 September 2007

  • Langergraber KE, Mitani JC , Vigilant L. 2007. The limited impact of kinship on cooperation in wild chimpanzees.  PNAS 104:7786-7790. pdf

• 14 September 2007

  • Hill SE. 2007. Overestimation bias in mate competition. Evolution and Human Behavior 28:118-123.pdf

• 21 September 2007

  • Schultz S, Dunbar RI. 2007. The evolution of the social brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society 274:2429-2436. pdf

• 28 September 2007

  • Lindenfors P. 2005. Neocortex evolution in primates: the ‘social brain’ is for females. Biology Letters 1: 407–410. pdf

• 5 October 2007

  • Robbins MM et al. 2007. Socioecological influences on the reproductive success of female mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) Behav Ecol Sociobiol 61:919-931. pdf

  19 October 2007

  • Hockings KJ et al. 2007. Chimpanzees share forbidden fruit. PLoS ONE September, 9:e866. pdf

• 26 October 2007

  • Krause J et al. 2007. the derived FOXP2 variant of modern humans was shared with Neanderthals. Current Biology 17:1-5. pdf
  • John Hawks' blog 

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  • Miller et al. 2007. Ovulatory effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus. Evoiution and Human Behavior (in press). pdf.

  2 November 2007

  • Hawks J et al. 2007. Recent acceleration of human evolution. PNAS. (in press). pdf.
    

• 9 November 2007

  • Clark G 2007ms Genetic capitalist? The Malthusian era, institutions and the formation of modern preferences. pdf.
  • Focus on "Malthus and Darwin: Survival of the Richest" beginning on p 15  and on "Evidence of Preference Changes" beginning on p 36.

  16 November 2007

  • Quinlan RJ & MB Quinlan. 2007. Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds.
    Cross-Cultural Tests of Alternative Hypotheses. Cross-Cultural Research 41:149-169. pdf.

  23 November 2007

  • Goldstone JA. 2002. Population and Security: How Demographic Change Can Lead to Violent Conflict Journal of International Affairs. 56(1):3-22. pdf.

  7 December 2007

       Charles A. Lockwood, et al. 2007. Extended Male Growth in a Fossil Hominin 
•      Species. Science 318:1443-1446. pdf.

Spring Semester 2007

• 19 Jan 2007 (Shawn Miller)
  • Bramble DM and Lieberman DE. 2004. Endurance running and the evolution of Homo.
• 26 Jan 2007 (Kyle Gibson)
  • Sosis R and Alacorta CS. Adaptive militants and martyrs? What evolutionary theories of religion tell us about terrorism
• 2 Feb 2007
  • Cancelled for Jennifer Graves's funeral.
• 9 Feb 2007 (Ben Chan)
  • Hagen EH, Barrett HC, and Price ME. 2006. Do human parents face a quantity-quality tradeoff?
• 16 Feb 2007 (Earl Keefe)
  • Flack JC, de Wall FBM, and Krakauer DC. 2005. Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated primate.
  • Flack JC, Girvan M, de Wall FBM, and Krakauer DC. 2006. Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates.
• 23 Feb 2007  (Emily Stone)
  • Laland KN and Brown GR. 2006. Niche construction, human behavior and the adaptive-lag hypothesis. Evolutionary Anthropology 15:95-104.
• 2 Mar 2007 (Shawn Miller)
  • Rilling JK. 2006. Human and nonhuman promate brains: are they allometrically scaled versions of the same design? Evolutionary Anthropology 15:65-77.
• 9 Mar 2007 (Brett Kennedy)
  • Sapolsky, Robert M. 2006. Social cultures among nonhuman primates. Current Anthropology 47(4):641-656.
• 16 Mar 2007 (Kyle Gibson)
  • Pruetz JD, Bertolani P. 2007. Savanna chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, hunt with tools. Current Biology 17:412-417.
• 30 Mar 2007 (Ben Chan)
  • Carrier, David R. The short legs of great apes: evidence for aggressive behavior in australopiths. Evolution 61(3):596-605.
• 6 Apr 2007 (Earl Keefe)
  • Milinski, Manfred, Dirk Semmann & Hans-Jurgen Krambeck. 2002. Reputation helps solve the tragedy of the commons. Nature, 415:424-426.
• 13 Apr 2007 (Emily Stone)
  • Keene, Ian. 2006. Constraints on the development of enduring inequalities in the late Holocene. Current Anthropology 47(1):7-38.
• 20 Apr 2007 (Brett Kennedy)
  • Milinski, Manfred et al. 2006. Stabilizing the Earth's climate is not a losing game: Supporting evidence from public goods experiments. PNAS 103:3994-3998.