Human Behavior & Evolution Society

The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is an interdisciplinary,
international society of researchers, primarily from the social and
biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to
discover human nature - including evolved emotional, cognitive
and sexual adaptations.

Note: If you are new to adaptationist approaches to human behavior, learn more at our Intro to the Field page.

News

The 2008 HBES conference will be held in Kyoto Japan, June 4 - 8, 2008. If you can read
Japanese, also see the Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan.

The abstract submission website is now open. See: http://darwin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/myreview/

The second annual conference of the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) will
be held at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. The conference will run
from Friday May 2nd to Sunday May 4th, 2008. Steven Pinker, of Harvard University,
will give the keynote address, and Peter Gray, of Boston College, will be the plenary speaker.
Poster and oral presentation submissions are due January 25th. NEEPS is the first regional
sister organization of HBES. More information is available here: http://neepsociety.com

Social Learning Strategies Tournament. Euro 10,000 prize. Major international multi-disciplinary
tournament on the evolution of social learning, inspired by Robert Axelrod's famous Prisoner's
Dilemma tournaments on the evolution of cooperation. The competition is now running,
and has a closing date of June 30 2008.

New program in Evolutionary Religious Studies (ERS) at the Evolutionary Studies Program
(EvolS) at Binghamton University. Also see:

	Starting Your Own EvoS Program at your university, by David Sloan Wilson.
	New online introductory course: Evolution for Everyone, Winter session (Jan 7-25, 2008)

New MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University

Evolution and Medicine: How new applications advance research and practice.
Henry Stewart Talks in conjunction with Professor Randolph Nesse from
the University of Michigan -- a series of 38 recorded lectures.

HBES members: The editorial staff at Evolutionary Psychology are interested in your opinion of the journal.
Please take a moment to complete their brief online survey.

New email discussion listserv sponsored by the International Society for Human Ethology.

New online journal: Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology

BioMedNet: Ecology, Evolution and Environment Gateway

Anthroplogy in the news and Anthropology Resources

Recent HBES Newsletters

Winter, 2008 / Summer, 2007 / Winter, 2007 / Summer, 2006

New Books and Articles

Evolution and Human Behavior is the official academic journal of the
Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Members of HBES get a free subscription.
(Members who join any time in during the year will get the entire volume for that calendar year).
Some online articles can be found here.

See a list of relevant new books and new articles.

Also see these journals:

	Human Nature Special reduced rate to members of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. (Click on the "Articles / Journals" menu item to the left for more information).
	Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior. Free access, peer reviewed, full text online journal.

Upcoming Related Conferences / Calls for Papers

	The 2008 Biennial Congress of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE08) will be held July 13 ‐ 17, 2008 at the University of Bologna, Italy. Abstract deadline is 1 April 2008. Registration and submission at http://www.ishe08.org
	Call for papers for an invited paper session, The Biology of Religious Behavior: A Human Ethology Perspective on Religion. International Society for Human Ethology Bi-Annual Meeting Bologna, Italy, 14 � 18 July, 2008.
	Call for Papers. International seminar on Trade-offs in Female Life Histories: Raising New Questions in an Integrative Framework. Bristol, United Kingdom, 23-25 July 2008. Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Evolutionary Perspectives in Demography, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, and with support from the British Society for Population Studies and the Galton Institute. Deadline for submission of abstract: 22 February 2008. A full announcement and description of this seminar is available at http://www.iussp.org/Activities/biol/call08.php For further information, please contact Dr Mhairi Gibson (mhairi.gibson@bristol.ac.uk) or Dr Rebecca Sear (r.sear@lse.ac.uk).
	American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, August 14-17, 2008. Division 1 (General Psychology, President: Dr. Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.) of the American Psychological Association will be emphasizing evolutionary psychological research in its 2008 program. This is a wonderful opportunity for researchers to showcase their findings. Individuals interested in submitting paper or posters, suggesting symposia or suggesting keynote speakers should contact the program Co-Chairs Dr. Nancy Segal (nsegal@fullerton.edu, 714-278-2142) or Dr. Jason Young (jason.young@earthlink.net, (212) 772-5566).
	A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy Across Academic Disciplines, March 12-14, 2009, Hofstra University. Call for Papers: Presentations will be accepted on the basis of 200-word abstracts submitted by June 16, 2008.

Ongoing Lecture Series

	UCLA Behavior, Evolution and Culture Speaker Series, lecture schedule calendar
	University of Michigan, Evolution and Human Adaptation Program, Lecture Series schedule
	Binghamton University, Evolutionary Studies Program, EvoS Seminar Series

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
-- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 449.

The tabula of human nature was never rasa and it is now being read.
-- William D. Hamilton, 1997