Lab Meetings

This week, Hyejin Youn will join us in lab meeting. Hyejin is an Assistant Professor in the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University. Lost and found in translation: the universal structure of human lexical semantics Hyejin Youn How universal...

This week, lab member Kevin Hong will present his work from a summer in the field with the Mosuo of southwestern China. Resource allocation and imitation in a Chinese matrilineal society The mosuo population in southwestern China has been intensively...

Please join us for talk by HEB department guest speaker David Sloan Wilson. Professor Wilson is the President of the Evolution Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. David Sloan Wilson Reaching a New...

Thomas Talhelm will give a talk. Topic TBA.

Our post-doc Anke Becker will give a presentation on her ongoing work on pastoralism and female status. On the one hand, she will explore to what extent pastoralism is conducive to and associated with low female status in pre-industrial societies. On the...

*Note: this week we will meet in Peabody 560* Joseph Dexter (PhD student in the Systems Biology Program) Quantitative Criticism and the Cultural Evolution of Literature The digitization of large corpora of natural language texts has resulted in an...

Tage Rai will join us from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is a Research Associate and Lecturer. Tage will spend part of his time discussing his work on Virtuous Violence (see abstract below). Then he'll workshop a new research direction that...