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 2009 HBES conference was held at California State University Fullerton,
May 27 - 31, 2009. See the Conference Proceedings (PDF) and some photos.

Locations of future HBES conferences: 2010 in Eugene, Oregon;
2011 in Montpellier, France.

Some responses to Sharon Begley's recent Newsweek article about evolutionary psychology:

	The Never-Ending Misconceptions About Evolutionary Psychology: Persistent Falsehoods About Evolutionary Psychology by Gad Saad
	Evolutionary Psychology Under Attack, by Dan Sperber
	Evolutionary Psychology and the Public Media: Rekindling the Romance, by David Sloan Wilson

Also see:

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

Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned
By Robert Kurzban

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.

New journal / call for submissions: Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
Editor: Steven M. Platek

As 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.

See the newly-restructured MSc and MRes programs in Evolutionary Psychology
at the University of Liverpool

The 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:

	Starting Your Own EvoS Program at your university, by David Sloan Wilson.
	New Journal - EvoS: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium. Articles related to the higher education of evolution. Free online peer-reviewed journal.
	EvoS Blogs - related to the examination and teaching of evolutionary theory in higher education.

New MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University

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, 2009 / 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

	London 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
	The 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/
	The 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.
	Penn 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.
	Evolution: Intersecting Natural and Social Sciences, Sienna, Italy, December 10 - 13, 2009.
	The 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.
	European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference. University of Wroclaw, Poland. March 25 - 27, 2010.

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
	SUNY 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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