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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

bulletThe 2009 HBES conference was held at California State University Fullerton,
May 27 - 31, 2009.  See the Conference Proceedings (PDF) and some photos.
bulletLocations of future HBES conferences: 2010 in Eugene, Oregon;
2011 in Montpellier, France.
bulletSome responses to Sharon Begley's recent Newsweek article about evolutionary psychology:
bullet The Never-Ending Misconceptions About Evolutionary Psychology: Persistent Falsehoods
About Evolutionary Psychology
by Gad Saad
bullet Evolutionary Psychology Under Attack, by Dan Sperber
bullet Evolutionary Psychology and the Public Media: Rekindling the Romance, by David Sloan Wilson

Also see:
bullet Why Evolutionary Psychology is "True" and The Human Mind Isn’t Perfect - Who Knew?
book reviews by James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shackelford, as well as Shackelford's
letter to the editor re the NYT article Human Nature Today
bullet Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned
By Robert Kurzban

bullet Call for book chapters: Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences (tentative title)
Inquiries and submissions should be sent to the editor, Dr. Gad Saad, at:
gadsaad@jmsb.concordia.ca.
bulletNew journal / call for submissions: Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
Editor: Steven M. Platek
bulletAs a professional service, please consider sharing your expertise on the Evolutionary
Psychology pages at online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia (a google search of
evolutionary psychology ranks this first on the results list), as well as the peer
reviewed encyclopedias Citizendium and Scholarpedia.
bulletSee the newly-restructured MSc and MRes programs in Evolutionary Psychology
at the University of Liverpool
bulletThe Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium is designed to facilitate the development
and implementation of Evolutionary Studies Programs at colleges and universities
across the United States.

Also see:
bullet Starting Your Own EvoS Program at your university, by David Sloan Wilson.
bulletNew Journal - EvoS: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium.
Articles related to the higher education of evolution.  Free online peer-reviewed journal.
bullet EvoS Blogs - related to the examination and teaching of evolutionary
theory in higher education.
bulletNew MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University
bulletNew email discussion listserv sponsored by the International Society for Human Ethology.
bulletNew online journal:  Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
bulletBioMedNet: Ecology, Evolution and Environment Gateway
bulletAnthroplogy in the news and Anthropology Resources

Recent HBES Newsletters

bullet Winter, 2009 / Winter, 2008 / Summer, 2007  / Winter, 2007 / Summer, 2006

New Books and Articles

bullet 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.
bulletSee a list of relevant new books and new articles.
bulletAlso see these journals:
bullet 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).
bulletEvolutionary 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

bulletLondon Evolutionary Research Network Debate: Is selection at the level of the group an important
evolutionary force? Speakers: Samir Okasha, Stuart West, Mark Pagel and Herbert Gintis.
JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street, UCL, London.
7th July, 3.30pm - 6.30pm, 2009. Free event. For more information, contact:
Micheal de Barra: Micheal.DeBarra@lshtm.ac.uk   / www.londonevolution.net
bulletThe 2009 Meeting of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS)
will be held Thursday July 9th through Sunday July 12th, 2009
at the State University of New York at Oswego. The website is: http://neepsociety.org/
bulletThe International Union for the Scientific Study of Population meeting will
be held in Marrakech, Morocco in September 2009. It will include sessions
that take an evolutionary approach to explaining population change and
reproductive decisions. For more info, see: http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/lobby.aspx 
Email questions to: Debra Judge.
bulletPenn State’s 17th Annual Symposium on Family Issues: Biosocial Research Contributions
to Understanding Family Processes and Problems
. The conference will take place October 8-9,
2009 on Penn State’s University Park campus.
bulletEvolution: Intersecting Natural and Social Sciences, Sienna, Italy,  December 10 - 13, 2009.
bulletThe fourth FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference, Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder:
Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment, will be held Friday-Sunday, January 22-24, 2010 at UCLA.
bullet European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference. University of Wroclaw, Poland. 
March 25 - 27, 2010.
 

Ongoing Lecture Series

bulletUCLA Behavior, Evolution and Culture Speaker Series, lecture schedule calendar
bullet University of Michigan, Evolution and Human Adaptation Program, Lecture Series schedule
bulletBinghamton University, Evolutionary Studies Program,  EvoS Seminar Series
bulletSUNY New Paltz Evolutinary Studies 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


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