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Fall Quarter 2011

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

September 28

Davide Ponzi

University of Missouri

The social endocrinology of the human child: Insights from a rural community of the island of Dominica

October 5

     

October 12

Krista Milich
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The impact of habitat quality on female reproduction in the red colobus monkeys of Kibale National Park, Uganda

October 19

Marissa Sobolewski
University of Michigan
The hormonal correlates of chimpanzee behavior: Territoriality, tolerance and stress
October 20, 12:30*
Yan Caie
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Social and sexual behaviors of snub-nosed monkeys   (Rhinopithecus roxellana) living in multi-level societies

October 26

Alexander Georgiev
Harvard University
Sex or food? Energetic costs of promiscuous mating in male chimpanzees

November 2

     

November 9

Misha Blizard
University of Chicago
Understanding primate spatial cognition: An analysis of mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata) travel paths

November 16

Christina Masco
University of Chicago
Individuality and Recognition in the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)

November 17, 4pm in Stuart 105*

Richard Conniff
The species seekers: Heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on earth

November 30

Winter Quarter 2012

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

January 4

January 11

     

January 18

     

January 25

Peter Dunn
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Extra-pair mating in birds: evidence for the Hamilton & Zuk hypothesis?

February 1

     

February 8

Aldo Badiani
University of Rome

February 15

Steve Pruett-Jones
University of Chicago
Games bowerbirds play

February 22

Tara Mandalaywala
University of Chicago
Exploring the consequences of early social experience on stress-physiology and social negativity bias in rhesus macaques

February 29

Alexa Veenema
Boston College
Quality of the early life social environment determines differential expression of
juvenile and adult social behaviors: Link to vasopressin and oxytocin systems

March 7

Coren Apicella

Harvard University

  Testosterone, risk preferences and sex differences in industrialized and hunter-gatherer populations
 Spring Quarter 2012

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

March 28
Todd K. Shackelford
Oakland University
Sexual coercion and forced in-pair copulation as sperm competition tactics in
humans
April 4
James Fuller
Columbia University
The vocal behavior of adult male blue monkeys: An evolutionary approach to a discrete signal repertoire
April 11
Katie Brooks
University of Chicago
Behavioral, physiological and fitness consequences of sociality in Belding's ground squirrels
April 18
Jason Watters
Brookfield Zoo
What happens when zoo animals join human social networks?
April 25
Allison Johnson
University of Chicago
Sexual selection and cooperative breeding: a comparative study of Maluridae species
May 2
Andy Dosmann
University of Chicago
Factors affecting behavioral plasticity in Belding's ground squirrels and how they explain animal personality

May 9*
Stuart 102

John Mitani
University of Michigan
Cooperation in wild chimpanzees
May 16
     

May 23

 

May 30

Matt Heintz

University of Chicago

*Note the different day, time, or location