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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 will be held at California State University Fullerton,
from May 27 to May 31, 2009. The host will be John Patton (Anthropology). 
The call for papers will be posted in January, 2009.
bulletThe 2008 HBES conference was held in Kyoto Japan, June 4 - 8, 2008. 
bulletSee the conference Proceedings and some photos from the conference.
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, as well as the peer
reviewed encyclopedias Citizendium and Scholarpedia.
bulletNew program in Evolutionary Religious Studies (ERS)  at the Evolutionary Studies Program
(EvolS) at Binghamton University. Also see:
bullet Starting Your Own EvoS Program at your university, by David Sloan Wilson.
bulletThe National Science Foundation just awarded $500,000 to Binghamton (David
Sloan Wilson (email: dwilson@binghamton.edu)) and SUNY New Paltz (Glenn
Geher (email: geherg@newpaltz.edu) and Jennifer Waldo (email: waldoj@newpaltz.edu)
to support their undergraduate interdisciplinary programs in Evolutionary Studies
(EvoS). Monies from this grant will be used to help set up programs at other
institutions in the United States. Please contact David, Glenn, or Jen to find
out more. Also, check out the websites for these programs
at http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/ and http://www.newpaltz.edu/evos/.
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, 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

bulletThe SPSP Evolutioanry Psychology Preconference will be held Thursday
February 5, 2009 in Tampa, FL. The co-organizers are Brandy Burkett,
Vladas Griskevicius, and Jenée James Jackson.
bullet Call for Papers. The 3rd Annual Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human
Rights Advocacy Forum is entitled "The Evolution of Human Aggression: Lessons
for Today's Conflicts" and will be held February 25 to 27, 2009 at the
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
bullet Sensation to Emotion Conference. March 2-3, 2009, New York City
bulletThe fourth EHBE meeting, and first of the newly formed European Human
Behaviour and Evolution Association, will be held at the University
of St Andrews from Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th April 2009.
bullet 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.
bulletThe 2009 Meeting of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS)
will be held Thursday July 9th through Sunday July 12th, 2009
at State University of New York at Oswego. The website is: http://neepsociety.org/

The deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2009.
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. The deadline for submissions to the meeting is 15 September,
2008.  For more info, see: http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/lobby.aspx 
Email questions to: Debra Judge.

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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