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7:30 AM to 12 AM, check in/ registration/HBES desk open in Valentine Lobby. People arriving
after 12 AM must get their packet, dorm key and information at the Security and Physical
Plant Service Building, which is building number 59 at position C1 on the Amherst College
map at http://www.amherst.edu/Map/campusmap.html.
5 to 9:45 PM, Opening Reception, Valentine Quadrangle & Sebring Room (dinner available at
Valentine Hall, 5 to 7 PM).
7 to 8:30 AM Breakfast served at Valentine
8:00 AM Poster presenters may set up in Sebring Room, Valentine Hall (room open all day).
Morning Plenary (Kirby Theater)
8:25 AM Welcome, Introduction: Jennifer Davis
8:35 AM Plenary Address: Paul Sherman, Spices and morning sickness: Protecting ourselves from
what eats us.
9:25 AM Break
1.0 Cognitive architecture and specializations, 6
1.1 Cory G. Consilience and the predictive value of the reciprocal modular brain.
1.2 Lieberman D, Tooby J, Cosmides L. In search of cues governing kin recognition and
incest avoidance.
1.3 Brown WM, Moore C, Humphrey T. Has subtle cheating influenced the adaptive design
of altruist-detection cognitive architecture ?
1.4 MacDonald K, Geary DC. The evolution of general intelligence: Domain-general
cognitive mechanisms and human adaptation.
1.5 Pereyra L. Function variation of the hazard management algorithm.
1.6 Hammond M. Arouser-arousal conversion rules: The neurophysilogy and evolurion of
diminishing marginal utility.
2.0 Parental Investment, menopause. Chair: Elizabeth Hill, 6
2.1 Hill EM, Craig AS, Hannah ME. Variation in parental economic investment among a
midlife U.S. cohort.
2.2 Bereczkei T. Maternal trade-off in treating high-risk children.
2.3 Holden C. Matriliny as female-biased parental investment: a comparative African study.
2.4 Sear R, Mace R. Matrilineal kin improve the nutritional status and survival of children in
rural Gambia.
2.5 Friedman BX. Reduced paternal investment and the evolution of menopause
2.6 Marlowe F. The patriarch hypothesis: An alternative explanation of menopause.
3.0 Mate attraction I: General, symmetry, waste-hip ratio. Chair: Elizabeth Cashdan, 6.
3.1 Kniffin K, Wilson DS. What is good is beautiful
3.2 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Quinlan RJ, Flinn RV. Men’s fluctuating asymmetry,
attractiveness, and reproduction in a rural Caribbean village.
3.3 Gray PB, Marlowe F. Fluctuating asymmetry among a foraging population: The
Hadza of Tanzania.
3.4 Phelan J. Heterozygosity decreases fluctuating symmetry: evidence from fruit flies
and humans.
3.5 Campbell L, Stewart M, Manning J, Simpson JA. Men behaving dominantly: Intrasexual
competition, emergent leadership, and the male waist-to-hip ratio (WHR).
3.6 Cashdan E. A woman’s view of waist-hip ratios: Trade-offs in androgen and estrogen-
dependent traits.
4.0 Cultural evolution I: models and memes, 6. Chair: William Irons
4.1 Irons W. Three models of culture
4.2 Burnham TC. Genetic evolutionary economics: would natural selection favor a selfish
Homo economicus.
4.3 Keckler CNW. Evolution of traits related to population density in a heterogeneous
metapopulation: an application of the “cornucopia principle” to changes in human
political propensities
4.4 Brody J. Active Darwinism offsets mismatch.
4.5 Aunger R. The meme is not the message.
4.6 Beahrs JO. Meme transmission: mutual suggestion as the default presumption.
Luncheon Meeting, lunch served at Valentine, 11AM to 1:15 PM
12:00 to 1 PM, Publication Committee, Valentine Hall, Terrace Room (downstairs)
Afternoon Plenary (Kirby Theater)
1:10 PM Introduction: David Buss
1:15 PM Plenary Address: Douglas Kenrick, Can one ever be too wealthy or too chaste?
Laboratory experimentation and the search for psychological mechanisms.
2:05 PM Break
Early Afternoon Paper Sessions, 2:30 to 3:50 PM (4 talks)
1.0 Symposium: Providing evidence for psychological mechanisms. Organizer and Chair: Jeff
Simpson.
1.1 Simpson JA, Gangestad SW. Validation of special design and selective history:
Theoretical terms and “damn funny coincidences”.
1.2 Li NP, Bailey JM. Trade-offs and psychological mechanisms: Experimental methods
and mate preferences.
1.3 Schaller M, Neuberg S. How social psychologists' minds work: Implications for
evolutionary inquiries.
1.4 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Social exchange: Converging evidence for special design.
2.0 Symposium: Evolutionary analysis in law. Organizer and Chair: Owen Jones.
2.1 Jones O. Evolutionary analysis in law: Prospects for applied evolutionary psychology.
2.2 Judge D. When gender-blind law isn't: Demography, sex differences, and legal
outcomes for women and men.
2.3 Thomson JA. Darwin goes to court: Principles of an evolutionary forensic psychiatry
and psychology.
2.4 McGinnis J. Constitutive law
and the human constitution.
3.0 Symposium: The embodied capital theory of human life history evolution. Organizer and Chair: John Bock; discussant: Bobbi Low.
3.1 Kaplan H, Gangestad S, Mueller T, and Lancaster J. Embodied capital and the co-
evolution of brains and longevity.
3.2 Lancaster J, Kaplan H, Hill K, and Hurtado A. A theory of human life history evolution
3.3 Bock J, Kaplan H, Johnson S, Lancaster J. Embodied capital and fertility in traditional
and modern societies.
3.4 Lam D, Anderson K, Kaplan H. Determinants of educational outcomes among urban
Xhosa in Cape Town, South Africa.
4.0 Cultural evolution II: theory and group processes. Chhair: Rick O’Gorman, 4.
4.1 O’Gorman R. Superior recall of normative social information: an evolutionary
hypothesis.
4.2 Hilton A. “Group evolutionary strategies” of Anabaptists: distinctiveness, survival, and
ethnic relations.
4.3 Thompson NS. The evolution of emergent group properties.
4.4 Kameda T, Nakanishi D. Cost/benefit analysis of “conformity bias” in cultural
transmission: an evolutionary game model.
1.0 Symposium: The organization of literary meaning. Organizer and Cair: Joseph Carroll.
1.1 Scalise Sugiyama M. Food for thought: The role of narrative in human subsistence.
1.2Easterlin N. Archetypes, ambivalence, and literary meaning in Hans Christian Andersen's
'Little Mermaid'.
1.3 Jobling I.The hero story as a human universal: Using evolutionary psychology to
understand literary universals.
1.4 Storey R. Evolution of amusement laughter obscured by representation of humorous
behavior.
1.5 Carroll J. Scenarios of female mate choice in five novels of female development
2.0 Panel discussion: Evolutionary Demography. Organizer: Kimber Haddix. Participants: K.
Haddix, M.Borgerhoff Mulder, H. Kaplan, J.Bock
3.0 Symposium: Homicide and the mind. Organizers: John Thomson and Owen Jones.
3.1 Duntley JD, Buss D. The killers among us: A co-evolutionary theory of homicide.
3.2 Wrangham R. An ape perspective on human
intra-specific killing.
3.3 Chagnon N. Most anthropological evidence doesn't support homicide modules.
3.4 Buss D, Duntley JD. Reply and Discussion.
4.0 Mate attraction II: Facial attractiveness. Chair: Robert Montgomerie, 5
4.1 Bullock HL, Montgomery RD. Multiple components of facial attractiveness.
4.2 Cruikshank C, Anderson NK, Johnston VS, Giddon DB. Predicting perceived body
from face morphology.
4.3 Franklin M, Johnston V. Hormone markers and beauty.
4.4 Penton-Voak IS, Perrett DI, Little AC, Burt DM, Tidderman B. Male facial
attraciveness: correlates of facial symmetry.
4.5 Silverman I, Tombs S, Fisher ML. Pupillomtery: A sexual selection approach.
Dinner meetings, 6:15 to 7:30 PM (dinner served at Valentine, 5 to 7 PM)
6:15 to 7:30 Student dinner, Valentine Hall, Mezzanine
6:15 to 7:30 Executive Council, Valentine Hall, Terrace Room (downstairs)
Evening Poster Session, Sebring Room, next to Valentine Hall. Presenters set up from 8 AM on.
Break down posters by 5 PM Friday (next day).
7:30 –9:30 PM Poster Session
7 to 8:30 AM Breakfast served at Valentine Hall
Morning Plenary (Kirby Theater)
8:30 AM Introduction: Steven Pinker
8:35 AM Plenary Address: Marc Hauser, Why humans are the wrong species in which to study the
evolution of human intelligence.
9:25 AM Break
Morning Paper Sessions, 9:50 to 11:50 AM (6 talks)
1.0 Symposium: Developmental and evolutionary origins of conceptual knowledge. Organizer:
HBES Program Committee. Chair: Steven Pinker.
1.1 Boysen ST “ I before e, except after c”: Pushing the parameters of primate cognition.
1.2 Keil F. Association vs. causation in conceptual development.
1.3 Spelke E. What makes humans smart?
2.0 Evolution of life histories I: theory, risk, reproductive expenditure and birth order. Chair:
James Jones, 6.
2.1 Jones JH. Human evolutionary demography: A life cycle analysis.
2.2 Chisholm J, Burbank V. Evolution and inequality.
2.3 Chen YC, Wang XT. Sexual selection and the perception of health and environmental
risk.
2.4 Davis JN. Birth order and the effects of maternal age on maternal investment.
2.5 LeGrand E. Enhanced apoptosis of infected cells as a benefit od the anorexia of
infection.
2.6 Zvoch K. Life histories and expected educational investment: Mortality-induced
variation?
3.0 Evolution and functions of emotions I: Sexual jealousy and guilt. Chair: David Buss, 6
3.1 Buss DM. The dangerous passion: The co-evolution of jealousy and infidelity
3.2 Bleske AL, Buss DM. Mate encroachment and jealousy.
3.3 Cousins J, Gangestad SW. Threats of female infidelity, male propriatariness and
violence in dating couples.
3.4 Fisher ML, MacKewn A, Czernochowski D. Guilt and adultery: An adaptationist
approach.
3.5 Bennett KL. Guilt regarding sexual and emotional fidelity.
3.6 Brown S, Demarest J. Sex differences in jealousy: The role of emotional involvement in
sexual infidelity.
4.0 Mating efforts and tactics I. Chair: Randall Grometstein, 6.
4.1 Bartlett M, Grometstein R. Mating effort and self control theory.
4.2 Conlan S, Buss DM. Mate expulsion tactics.
4.3 Grometstein R., Bartlett M. The marginalization of mating effort in our modern society.
4.4 Whybird R, Mealey L. Sociosexuality and sociosexual signalling.
4.5 Steadman M, Cvorovic M. Ancient Greek promiscuity ?
4.6 Beroldi G, The NLSY79, father absence and evolution
Luncheon meeting, 12 to 1 PM (lunch served in Valentine, 11 to 1:15 PM)
Business Meeting I, 12 to 1 PM, Valentine Annex
Afternoon Plenary (Kirby Theater)
1:20 PM Introduction: Eric Smith
1:25 PM Plenary Address: Herbert Gintis, Strong reciprocity and human sociality: game theoretic
models and empirical tests.
2:15 PM Break
Early Afternoon Paper Sessions, 2:40 to
4:20 PM (5 talks)
1.0 Symposium: Reciprocity and human sociality: theoretical models and empirical tests
Organizer and Chair: Herbert Gintis.
1.1 Alvard M Cooperative big game hunting.
1.2 Ensminger, J Learning cooperation in the market--evidence from experimental
economics in Kenya.
1.3 Smith EA. Signaling generosity and willingness to punish.
1.4 Marlowe F. Sharing among Hadza hunter-gatherers.
1.5 Patton JQ. Social contracts, ultimatums, and reciprocal fairness in the Ecuadorian
Amazon.
2.0
Panel
Discussion: The use of evolutionary
biology in understanding religion:
Promising beginnings and/or dangerous directions? Organizer: Dan Kriegman. Moderator: Irven
DeVore.Discussants: K.MacDonald, J.Hartung, R.Wrangham.
2.1Kriegman O. Evolutionary analysis of intergroup
conflict and coalitional aggression:
Positing universal human psychological mechanisms for group
formation and conflict.
2.2Kriegman D. Kevin MacDonald and the Jews: Hard
medicine to swallow, or a delicious
gift to Saint Stephen (J. Gould)?
2.3 Reply and Discussion: MacDonald K, Hartung J,
Wrangham R.
3.0 Evolution and function of emotions II: Empathy and grief. Chair: Paul Wehr, 5.
3.1 Korchmaros JD, Kenny DA. Emotional closeness as a mediator of the effect of genetic
relatedness on altruism.
3.2 Michalski RL, Shackelford TK. Adult attachment, kinship and mateships among older
adults.
3.3 Thompson B. The influence of evolved psychology on human perceptions of non-human
species.
3.4 Wehr P. Bereavement as a function of reproductive value: Evidence from spousal and
offspring loss.
4.0 Mating tactics and mate choice. Chair: Todd Shackelford, 5.
4.1 LeBlanc, Buss DM, Shackelford TK. Number of children desired and preferred
spousal age difference: Context-specific mate preference patterns across 37 cultures.
4.2 Abraham JN. Does sexual selection exist? An ecological theory of sexual
dimorphism in animals .
4.3 Ward D, LeBlanc G, Shackelford TK. Preventing, correcting, and anticipating female
infidelity: Three adaptive problems of sperm competition.
4.4 Schmitt DP. The desire for sexual variety as a tool for understanding basic human mating
strategies.
4.5 Josephson SC. First wives and the nature of polygyny
Late Afternoon Paper Sessions, 4:40 to 6 PM (4 talks)
1.0 Symposium: The battle for human nature: A thirty years’ war. Organizer: Ullica Segerstrale.
1.1 Irons W. Tales from the front: How the thought police banned my human sexuality
course.
1.2 Chagnon N. The Noble Savage has no biology and evolutionists who think so should be
repudiated.
1.3 Segerstrale U. Politics by scientific means and science by political means: critical
strategies in the sociobiology debate.
1.4 Fetzer J. Future conflicts in evolution and psychology.
2.0 Symposium: Reproducive effort: Trade-offs in mating and parenting. Organizers and Chair: Mary Shenk, Goeffrey Kushnick.
2.1 Kushnick GC. Parent-offspring conflict models: prospects for use in human behavioral
ecology field studies.
2.2 Anderson KG .The life histories of American stepfathers in evolutionary perspective.
2.3 Shenk, M. Evolutionary and economic determinants of dowry inflation.
2.4 Nolin D, Alvard M. Resource sharing and growth of offspring in Lamalera, Indonesia.
3.0 Lingusitic evidence of social evolution, 3
3.1 Jones D. Toward an evolutionary psychology
of kin classification: Group nepotism,
markedness and optimality theory.
3.2 Jordan F, Gray R. Rigorous tests of adaptive hypotheses: are language phylogenies the
answer ?
3.3 Schuldberg D, Guisinger S. Female choice in the evolution of language: Evidence from
an analogue study of sperm donor preferences.
4.0 Evolution of life histories II: fertility, pregnancy, and maternal investment. Chair: Beverly Strassman
4.1 Valeggia CR, Ellison PT. Breastfeeding behavior, maternal energetics, and duration of
amenorrhea in Toba women of Formosa , Argentina.
4.2 Strassman BI. Does Dogon fertility maximize female fitness.
4.3 Fessler DMT. Progesterone-induced immunosuppression and sex differences in meat
consumption.
4.4 Mace R, Sear R Twin mothers as supermums: analysis of the fitness of mothers of twins
using demographic data from rural Gambia.
Banquet and Keynote Address (Alumni Gymnasium and Kirby Theater)
6:15-6:45 PM Refreshments, Alumni Gymnasium
6:45-8:00 PM Banquet, Alumni Gymnasium
8:25 PM Introduction, Irven DeVore (Kirby Theater)
8:35 PM Keynote Address: Ecology and phylogeny in the human ape: Towards an integrated evolutionary
psychology. Richard Wrangham
7 to 8:30 AM Breakfast served at Valentine Hall
Morning Plenary (Kirby Theater)
8:30 AM Introduction: Irven DeVore
8:35 AM Plenary address: Richard Potts, The adaptive crunch: Habitat instability as the context of
early human behavioral evolution.
9:25 AM Break
Morning Paper Sessions, 9:50 to 11:50 AM (6
talks)
1.0 Symposium: Hominid transitions (organizer: HBES 2000 Program Committee. Chair: Irven DeVore.
1.1 Laden, G. With this handaxe, I thee wed? The origin and evolution of human pair
bonding and food sharing may be visible in the archaeological record.
1.2 Significant others: Chimpanzees,
bonobos and the five cherished myths of
human behavioral origins.
1.3 Robson
S. Meat eating and human encephalization.
1.4 Deacon T.
2.0 Religion, religious experience and moral systems. Chair: Thomas Moore, 6.
2.1 Moore T. Placebos, faith and morals: Or why religion ?
` 2.2 Goldberg R. Selection advantage of religious fasts.
2.3 Schloss JP. Historical oscillations of religious zeal as cheater detection mechanism:
Religious revivalism as costly or hard to fake signalling.
2.4 McClenon J. Content analysis of an anomalous experience collection: Evaluating
evolutionary perspectives.
2.5 Navarette CD. The evolution and function of moral reasoning: A synthetic view.
2.6 Wiebe RP. Criminal behavior, reproductive fitness and moral responsibility.
3.0 Evolutionary psychology: models, variation, social influence, fear and parental investment. Chair: James Boster, 6.
3.1 Ketelaar T. Is Affect simply an algorithm for representing Utility ? Evidence for an
emotional basis to the “Losses loom larger than Gains” effect.
3.2 Colarelli SM, Yang C. G1 Directly testing the assumption of frequency superiority, with some
implications for social influence.
3.3 Brase G. Directly testing the assumption of frequency superiority, with some
implications for social influence.
3.4 Fetchenhauer D. Why are women more afraid of crime than men ?
3.5 Boster J. Family values: What American parents want for their children.
3.6 Wang XT. In the eyes of the beholder: How men and women, tested in two cultures,
estimate each other’s investment distributions.
Luncheon Business Meeting II, 12 to 1 PM, Valentine Hall, Annex
Student Workshop,
12 to 1 PM, Speakers: D.Buss, M.Daly, Valentine Mezzanine
Afternoon Plenary (Kirby Theater)
1:25 PM Introduction, Napoleon Chagnon
1:30 PM Plenary Address: Laura Betzig, Why the Pope’s Catholic: A Darwinian history of the
church.
2:20 PM Break
Afternoon Paper Sessions, 2:45 to 4:45 PM (6 talks)
1.0 Symposium: Darwinian history. Organizer and Chair: Laura Betzig.
1.1 Pinker S. The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine.
1.2 Wright R. Human nature and the direction of history.
1.3 Sulloway F. Darwinian psychohistory: Principles and prospects
2.0 Symposium: The nature of psychopathy. Organizer: M. Lalumiere. Chair: L.
Mealey.
2.1 Quinsey VL.Measurement and conceptualization of psychopathy.
2.2 Lalumière ML Developmental instability and
psychopathy.
2.3 Skilling TA. Serious
antisocial behavior in children: Evidence of an underlying taxon
2.4 Harris GT. Psychopathy as
a viable strategy: Empirical tests with sex offenders.
3.0 Aggression, homicide and dominance striving. Chair: Viviana Weekes-Shackelford, 5.
3.1 Dyson-Hudson R. A Darwinian study of homicide
3.2 Hiraiwa Hasegawa M, Hasegawa T. Homicide in Japan during the 1990’s.
3.3 Shackelford TK. Reproductive age women are over-represented among perpetrators of
husband killing.
3.4 Weekes-Shackelford VA, Shackelford TK, Buss DM. Wife killings committed in the
context of a “lovers’ triangle”.
3.5 Rommel W. Analytical sociology and the need for evolutionary psychology.
4.0 Evolution and function of emotions III: Health, depression, self esteem, and patriotism. Chair: Lee Kirkpatrick, 6.
4.1 Curtis V. Dirt, danger and desire: motivating healthy behavior.
4.2 Hanson R. Showing that you care: The evolution of health altruism.
4.3 Henriques GH. Depression as a behavioral shutdown mechanism: Disease or evolved
defense strategy.
4.4 Pillmann F. The social competition hypothesis of depression: a review of current
evidence.
4.5 Kirkpatrick L, Valencia A, Waugh C, Webster G. Domain specificity of self esteem and
aggression.
4.6 Price M. Evolutionary psychology of patriotism.
Memorial Session for William D. Hamilton,
1936-2000 (Kirby Theater)
5:10 PM Introduction: J. Tooby. Speakers: R. Dawkins, M.J. West Eberhard,
G. Williams, R. Trivers
6:00 PM Out
Barbecue, Competition
Announcements , Valentine Quadrangle
6:30-8:00 PM Barbecue, Valentine Quadrangle
8:00-9:00 PM Roland Satterwhite, violinist, Valentine Quadrangle
7 to 8:30 AM Breakfast served at Valentine Hall
8:30 AM Introduction: Sarah Hrdy
8:40 AM Plenary Address: Robert Trivers, Intragenomic conflict and mental evolution.
9:35 AM Break
Morning Paper Sessions, 9:50 to 11:50 AM (6
talks)
1.0 Symposium: Infectious causation of mental illness. Organizer and Chair: Paul Ewald.
1.1 Torrey FE. Infections, cats, and schizophrenia.
1.2 Cochran GM. Evolution and infectious causation of mental illness.
1.3 Leckman JF. Obsessive‑compulsive disorder: Evolutionary and developmental
perspectives.
2.0 Cognitive architecture and specializations II. Chair: Robert Kurzban, 6